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SLEEPING DRIVERS
BY MONICA DOBIE
A RECENT Canadian survey into drivers falling asleep at the wheel has revealed that a majority of the cases occurred in the late afternoon and not at night, a more obvious presumption. The study, conducted by the country’s Traffic Injury Research Foundation, said that roughly one-third of the drivers who admitted to dozing off said that it occurred in the afternoon.…
TANNERY WASTE: COLLAGEN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka is developing a research project to extract pure collagen hydrolysates from solid leather production wastes. The study currently has a Euro 1.8 million budget, which should grow over its four-year life, until 2008.…
EFSA GM MAIZE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says a genetically modified maize variety is safe enough for consumers, animals and the environment to secure market approval. 1507 maize kills certain “pest” butterflies and moths. EFSA also wants further research using iodine in livestock feed, which could harm meat and dairy consumers.…
RUSSIA CIGARETTES
BY MARK ROWE
IT is tempting to think that all is well in the Russian cigarette market. And, in fairness, in many ways this is the case. Filter and light cigarettes production is growing, while the manufacture of plain cigarettes and filterless papirossi is decreasing.…
RUSSIA FEATURE
BY MARK ROWE
THE RUSSIAN oil and gas industry is one sector where comparison with the matryoshka doll – the dolls beloved by tourists that open up to reveal a series of ever smaller dolls within – seems particularly apt. Inside the outer doll, which represents the industry as a whole, you find a smaller doll representing Gazprom, the natural gas monolith.…
DRINKS SPONSORSHIP FEATURE
BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…
BUG AGE DETECTOR
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have discovered technology that can detect the sex of insects, helping them to control disease-carrying bugs such as mosquitoes and tsetse flies. Using an agricultural tool normally used to analyse grain kernels, researchers from the federal government’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) discovered they could determine the sex of insects using near-infrared (NIR) monitors, which beam light at an organism, which reflects it back with its own its own unique signature.…
EFSA INSECTICIDE PROBE
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called for additional research into the presence of a potentially toxic insecticide in farmed fish. EFSA has concluded that while there is wide knowledge possibly harmful levels of camphechlor are present in fish and fish oil (for human and livestock consumption), it fears “substantial data gaps…on oral toxicity for farmed fish.…
CALF FORMULA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN scientists have developed an “infant formula” for calves that may help them fight infection from salmonella and other microbes especially when faced with anxiety such as transport stress. The supplement contains beta-glucan from yeast cell walls and vitamin C.…
NON-FERROUS METALS IN TASMANIA
BY MATTHEW BRACE
*Copper
Copper dropped in production between 2003-04 and the previous year. However, the Mt Lyell Copper Mine in Queenstown has deemed copper priced sufficiently to continue its development of a decline to the next production level. Copper prices made significant gains throughout 2003-4, notably in the second half of the financial year and reached the A$4,000 (UK Pounds 1,600) mark by June, a price not achieved since 1995.…