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BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURO 192 million will be spent on food quality and safety research this year under the European Union’s (EU) Sixth Framework Programme for research, says the European Commission. Projects tackle issues including traceability, contaminants in food, diseases affecting livestock animals, food allergies, obesity and nutrition.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EURO 192 million will be spent on food quality and safety research this year under the European Union’s (EU) Sixth Framework Programme for research, says the European Commission. Projects tackle issues including traceability (including in GM products), contaminants in food, diseases affecting livestock animals, food allergies, obesity and nutrition (especially for babies).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is spending Euro 15 million on uniting European Union (EU) experts on food safety, animal and human health. The new EU Network of Excellence MED-VET-NET will – claims the Commission – for the first time, “unite medical and veterinary expertise in the fight against zoonoses”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BOTOX injections – generally used to diminish wrinkles – have been found to successfully relieve symptoms of enlarged prostate and urinary problems without serious side affects according to new research presented at the American Urological Association. It is unclear how the drug works but researchers think it is because it relaxes tight muscles around the prostate and urinary tract.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL calls for proposals have been made by the European Commission for studies into organic and low input milk production, under its Euro 18 million ‘Quality Low Input Food’ project. Euro 330,000 is available for this particular study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEWLY renamed European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched asked for comments on a ‘road map to 2010: preparing the ground for the future’. It outlines the agency’s strategy to “further develop as one of the world’s foremost regulatory authorities for medicinal products, which is public health oriented, science-driven and transparent”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN Agricultural Research Service scientists have discovered a way to protect honey bee colonies from being wiped out by voracious varroa mites, by breeding bees with an identified genetic trait that suppresses the reproduction of the mites in infested colonies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ZERO Emissions Research Initiative – helping Africa sustainably exploit local biological resources – is examining using ganoderma mushrooms as medicines, possibly for HIV/AIDS. It is also considering exports of Termitomyces titanicus, the world’s largest edible umbrella mushroom and the Congo basin’s edible goliath frog.…