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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control package REACH that has been causing metal companies serious concern is starting to move steadily towards the Brussels statute book, with the European Parliament preparing to start formal debates next month. Its responsible committee on the environment, public health and food safety stages its next meeting on November 23 and 24, following a session of the industry, research and energy committee, which has the right to propose its own amendments.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LONG-AWAITED civil racketeering trial is under way in the United States, where the US federal government is seeking a record US$280 billion from the American tobacco industry for allegedly misleading the public about the dangers of smoking since the 1960’s.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COMPANIES whose employees endure long stressful commutes to work are at a greater risk of losing their workers due to heart attacks according to German research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study said people are three times more likely to suffer a heart attack within an hour of driving a car or bicycle in a traffic jam than if they would be in activities away from traffic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a policy paper recommending future European Union (EU) actions to deter smoking, which would ramp up Europe’s already tough raft of anti-tobacco rules and guidelines. ‘Tobacco or Health in the European Union’ proposes that national governments increase spending on anti-tobacco actions by between Euro 1 and 3 per citizen, with national tobacco control agencies being established to coordinate such programmes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research consortium has announced a breakthrough in cutting the weight of cars, by producing and testing a full-scale carbon fibre floorpan, sills, roof, pillars and side panels. The result, it claims are safe and fast cars, not only using smaller engines and so emitting less pollution than metal models, but would be popular and mass produced.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have developed the first genetic map of a cow, a breakthrough they claim will help reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition and quality of beef products. The research, performed at the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Centre in Houston, Texas, is part of a US$53 million global project to sequence the genome of different breeds of cattle.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has followed up the proposals of the European Union’s (EU) high-level group on dealing with the end of textile trade quotas in the New Year, proposing a slush fund to cope with the potential fall-out. It has proposed earmarking 1% EU national development (‘structural’) funds and 3% of regional competitiveness grants for areas with large textile industries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH ministers from seven European Union (EU) countries have announced a plan to boost research cooperation to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Meeting in Paris, ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands agreed to jointly organise studies and clinical trials to speed up discoveries, avoiding wasteful duplicate testing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research consortium has announced a breakthrough in cutting the weight of cars, producing and testing a full-scale carbon fibre floorpan, to be combined with sills, roof, pillars and side panels from the same material.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIGH flux reactor at the European Union (EU) Joint Research Centre’s institute of energy has successfully tested a new cure for brain tumours caused by skin cancer. The centre said this boron neutron capture therapy killed cancer cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed.…