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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released the details of the projects financed by the first Euro 166 million released for food studies under the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. They include a study on hazardous compounds in heat-treated carbohydrate-rich foods, such as acrylamide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has made a formal call for research proposals on food safety that will be funded by a Euro 197 million tranche of money from the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme. Topics would include the impact of animal feed on human health and ‘traceability’ processes along the production chain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SPREAD of salmonella in pork may eventually be curtailed because of new research that can track the bacteria in living pigs. Scientists at the USA’s Agricultural Research Service’s Livestock Behaviour Research Unit have used biophotonics, a new technology that uses light to mark molecular changes, to observe infections in living piglets and adult pig tissue after slaughter.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WASTE from cotton production is proving to be anything but that in America after initial testing showed it could be successfully recycled. The USA’s Agriculture Research Service and Illinois-based Summit Seed have been testing a dry formulation of cotton gin waste for use as bedding mulch

for landscaping.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realizes by now that it has a collective weight problem. Newspaper articles have been coming out at an ever increasing rate to remind them that 64 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, that the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children and that the medical toll obesity exacts is estimated at US$100 billion (GBPounds 59 billion) a year.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SWEET drinks are helping to increase daily caloric averages, according to a study published in the USA’s Obesity Research. The research found average world consumption up by 74 calories a day, with sugar making up a larger proportion of that increase.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN study has found a possible link between hot dogs and colon cancer. University of Nebraska researcher Dr. Sidney Mirvish – who has studied processed meats for 30 years – found increased levels of nitrosamines (NOCs), a suspected carcinogen, in the faeces of mice fed a diet of hot dogs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s environment and health strategy for 2004-2010, approving its initial focus on childhood respiratory diseases, asthma, allergies; neuro-developmental disorders; child cancer and endocrine disrupters.

Ministers called on the Commission to develop research models to assess the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects), especially on children and other vulnerable groups.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GIANT robot that resembles a four-legged spider has been developed by a European Union (EU) funded research project to shore up unstable slopes, preventing landslides without putting workers’ lives at risk. ROBOCLIMBER has been developed by a consortium of nine companies and research teams in four EU countries, among them Italian engineering company D’Appolonia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW biological research in the USA is developing a system that can be used in coal power plants, where microbes act as pollution filters that can eat away at emissions such as carbon dioxide. Scientists from the IBEA, (Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives), have pieced together 5,000 blocks of DNA to create a small artificial virus, or bacteriophage, that can sequester carbon dioxide and create hydrogen as a bi-product.…