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KEITH NUTHALL
AN INFESTATION of European flat oysters by the parasite Bonamia Ostreae, in Malaspina Inlet, on the west coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada, has been reported by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE). It was uncovered by a research experiment by the Fisheries and Oceans Canada ministry’s shellfish health laboratory in Nanaimo, also in BC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-DIOXIN LIKE PCB CONTAMINATION WARNING – EFSA

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has called on the food industry to further minimise non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) in food, because of health concerns about excess contamination. * http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/contam/contam_opinions/1229/contam_op_ej284_ndl-pcb_en1.pdf

ECJ SMOKED FLAVOURINGS CRISPS – BRITAIN APPEAL

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a British government attempt to strike down a EU regulation controlling smoke flavourings in foods.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S paint and coatings industry has been enjoying a period of stability and steady prosperity of late, as a mature sector that is generally growing at the same rate as the country’s robust economy. Despite suffering the effects of the general downturn in the Asian economy after SARS and terrorism fears, the industry has remained highly competitive throughout the five-year period to 2003-2004.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

PATIENTS in need of an organ transplant may stand a better chance of receiving a new heart, kidney or liver in good time because of a substance found in a tiny hopping bug. Canadian scientists from the Department of Biochemistry at Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, discovered an antifreeze protein in snow fleas that may increase the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.…

BY MARK ROWE
AT the start of the 21st century, technology appears set to revolutionise health care in the same way as the discovery of anaesthesia, antiseptics and penicillin. And this is about far more than computer systems that make waiting lists more efficient or advances in keyhole surgery.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is promoting research improving old people’s nutrition: LIPIDIET preventing Alzheimer’s disease through diet (http://www.lipidiet.org/); OPTIFORD on how vitamin D strengthens bones (http://optiford.org/); and CROWNALIFE on foods improving digestion (http://www.crownalife.be/).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN tobacco industry is poised on the brink of major change, with the country’s manufacturers considering comprehensive leaf import programmes that could undermine the sustainability of the country’s domestic growing sector.

This change is being lead by the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer, Imperial Tobacco Canada, which outlined a proposal in the spring of 2004 that would alter the current two-tiered pricing system for domestic and exported tobacco leaf in the 2005/2006 season.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSULTANTS Charles River has called on European Union (EU) member states to coordinate tax breaks they offer pharmaceutical companies for research, to maximise resulting benefits. A report ordered by the European Commission warns these could be frittered away if used to attract pharmaceutical companies from one EU country to another.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A STUDY ordered for the European Commission – ‘The Financing of ATM To Achieve The Single European Sky’ – has caused something of a stir in aviation circles where a number of air traffic control professionals believe it to be founded on wrong assumptions and to give too rosy a picture of the situation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is staging regional training and research programmes to cut the thousands of gallons of milk spoiled in east Africa every week. It estimates that US$59.7 million dairy products are lost annually in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.…