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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN research consortium is testing an automatic accident alert system helping drivers motoring in a foreign country raise emergency services following an accident, reducing the risk they might die or suffer serious harm. The system would help motorists who may not know where to call for assistance and may not speak the language used by nearby police, ambulance services and fire fighters.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NAT DiBuduo is finally getting calls from buyers after four years as president of Allied Grape Growers, a California grape marketing cooperative. Those calls, along with a few other factors, are providing signs that the slump California’s wine industry has been experiencing in the last three years is coming to an end.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of countries have formed a network of excellence developing expertise in the deep underground storage of radioactive waste. Coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, participants include Belgium’s Hades Underground Research Facility in Mol; Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory of Lac-du-Bonnet, Manitoba; Switzerland’s Grimsel Test Site and Mont-Terri Underground Research Laboratory; Britain’s Geo-Environmental Research Centre, Cardiff; and the USA’s WIPP facility, New Mexico, the Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Francisco.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ASSESSMENTS of the commercial value to businesses of training programmes fail to deliver useful information and should be overhauled, an experienced learning analysis company has claimed, following collaborative research with seven major corporate employers.

ELearnity has worked with B&Q, BP, BT, Coca-Cola Enterprises, HSBC, Marks & Spencer and Vodafone to create what is says are “challenging conclusions” from its Learning Scorecard project.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s troubled statistical agency Eurostat is planning an increase the amount of work tackled in house rather than buying in research from outside contractors, the strategy leading to the ongoing accounting scandal. Eurostat director Michel Vanden Abeele told EU news wire Eupolitix: “We need to tighten our belt.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched three projects, drawing Euro 43 million from its Sixth Framework Programme for research developing food safety expertise. They are ‘Safe Foods’ on risk analysis in food safety; ‘NuGO’ on creating a network of specialists in genomics, nutrition and health; and ‘Welfare Quality’ on animal welfare in food production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a US $53-million project to map the genetic makeup of cattle in the hope it will promote human health by controlling animal disease.

The multinational Bovine Genome Sequencing Project will be carried out by universities in the US and Canada.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology has been introduced in the USA that will alert meat packers to the fat content in a carcass without having to cut into it. According to the country’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS), the dual x-ray absorptiometrey (or DXA), uses x-rays of differing energy levels to scan for soft tissue of varying densities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Renewable Energy Centres Agency (EUREC) has called for more funding for green energy research, claiming that via up from investment, the industry would be able to improve efficiencies and become more profitable. The agency – a specialist non-governmental organisation – wants to research spending on renewable energy production increased 10 times.…

BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…