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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding a two-year programme to promote and monitor good quality meat production in its 10 new eastern and southern member states. The QUALITYMEAT project aims to promote the production of healthy meat, which now circulates freely around Britain and the rest of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is funding a two-year programme to promote and monitor good quality meat production in its 10 new eastern and southern member states. The QUALITYMEAT project aims to promote the production of healthy meat, which now circulates freely around Britain and the rest of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFTA) has called for further research into whether using iodine in livestock feed could pose health problems to animals and meat consumers. Its FEEDAP Panel on animal feed additives and products is concerned iodine is also consumed through iodine-enriched salt and other food items, tablets, and iodine-enriched beverages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ADDITIONAL Protocol to the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Biomedical Research, has been opened for signature by the organisation’s 46 member states. It defines and protects fundamental rights of human biomedical research subjects, saying who can consent to taking part in experiments, and under what circumstances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUMBER of living creatures being used in research experiments, including for pharmaceuticals, is on the rise in the European Union (EU) despite legislative efforts to restrict such practices. The latest European Commission report has shown that in 2002 the total number of animals and fish used in all scientific experiments increased by about 917,000 (9.3%) compared with 1999, mainly due to the additional use of about 970,000 fish, while other animal species decreased.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN and eight other European countries have signed a memorandum of understanding about constructing a groundbreaking X-ray research laser, so acute it could measure chemical reactions in real time. The UK, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany have agreed to negotiate in detail an inter-governmental arrangement for building an approximately three-kilometre-long underground laser generator.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has called for international cooperation on testing potential vaccines for HIV/AIDS because it is concerned that the current boom in research could exhaust available clinical trial capacity. WHO vaccine research director Marie-Paule Kieny (CORRECT SPELLING) has called for trials to be shared amongst a number of sites, each of whom were responsible for testing vaccines on a particular strain of the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is investigating 13,000 personal DNA records to discover links between genetics, food components and obesity. A key aim is examining the role carbohydrates and high-protein foods could play in making consumers feel full and so less likely to continue eating.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Mohamed ElBaradei has called on governments to make advance preparations for May’s 2005 Review Conference of the parties to the UN Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Listing a series of “fixes” to tighten global controls, ElBaradei said some of these “can be made in May, but only if governments are ready to act.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORGET about global warming, European scientists are currently more concerned about record low temperatures in the Arctic region, which they claim are thinning the northern hemisphere’s ozone layer to dangerously thin depths. Although Europe, Asia and north America have pumped most of the world’s ozone-depleting chemicals into the atmosphere, it is in the south where the notorious ozone hole has appeared, bringing skin cancers to Australasia and other regions.…