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BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has come under fire for failing to effectively reform its shoddy mental hospitals, which have been described by a human rights group as “dumping grounds where people are robbed of the right to any activity and wait only to die”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN food industry has been asked to supply information to an official inquiry aimed at discovering products most prone to contain the carcinogen furan. This was said by the US Food and Drug Administration in May to be present in some foodstuffs exposed to high temperatures, claims that are being investigated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY ordered into the effects of European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH has been roundly criticised by members of the European Parliament committee that ordered it. Wiesbaden-based company Arthur D. Little’s report claimed that REACH could cause “a 2.9% loss in GDP and a 24.7% loss in (chemical and related industry) production”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INCOMING European energy Commissioner has called on member governments of the European Union (EU) to install pricing policies that encourage the use of renewable energy to help boost Europe’s green energy capacity. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire ahead of his assuming office in November, Hungary’s Lázló Kovács indicated that he would cement rather than unravel the Commission’s commitment to promoting renewables.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU network of research institutions investigating the safety and health effects of phytoestrogens has been created. Phytohealth will especially check whether phytoestrogens prevent cancer. They are found in plant foods, such as beans, cabbage, flax seed, rye, berries, grains and soya products.…

Keith Nuthall
NEELIE Kroes, the European Union (EU) Commissioner-designate for Competition – called the Commission’s second most important job after its president’s – vigorously defended herself at the European Parliament against allegations of divided loyalties today.

Appearing at a hearing before parliament’s economic committee earlier today, she endured a three hour grilling from cross-party tormentors who included her Dutch countryman Paul van Buitenen, formerly a whistle blower and now an MEP.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A STUDY into the European Union’s (EU) proposed REACH system has been roundly criticised by members of the European Parliament committee that ordered it. Consultants Arthur D. Little’s report claimed REACH could cause “a 2.9% loss in GDP and a 24.7% loss in (chemical and related industry) production”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SALMONELLA levels in free-range organically produced poultry are roughly the same as conventionally produced chickens according to recent findings from the US Agricultural Research Service. Its scientists found that approximately 25 % of chickens from both farming methods tested positive for salmonella, quashing some consumer beliefs that free-range chickens are microbiologically superior.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium says it has adapted existing nanotechnology to create tiny switches that can further shrink the size of computers. The E! 2839 MESCI-I project – coordinated by European Union (EU) research network EUREKA – claims to “have succeeded where many others have failed – by making the production of miniature electric and computer systems economically viable”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEEDING an enzyme called phytase to pigs and combining aluminum chloride with their manure, reduces phosphorus pollution in pigmeat production run-off water by as much as 70% according to a study by the USA Agricultural Research Service. Adding aluminium chloride alone reduces phosphorus by 53%, whilst phytase reduced it further because it helps pigs digest phosphorous.…