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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published a comprehensive analysis of the world’s forest products industry and markets. With the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, it has released Forest Products Annual Market Analysis, 2002-2004. It covers forest products market and policy developments in Europe, north America and the former Soviet Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FUTURE cooperation over the safe operation of Europe’s ageing nuclear power stations has been discussed by a key meeting of specialists from existing European Union (EU) Member States and eastern European countries applying for membership. Staged by the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) at its Institute for Energy, Petten, the Netherlands, the meeting examined “future networking opportunities for nuclear plant life management.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced that next month it will launch a European Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technology Partnership, pumping (as yet unspecified amounts) of funds into private, public and mixed sector research and development projects to introduce hydrogen as a fuel on a commercial basis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union member countries – including Britain – to draw up a list of diseases and illnesses for which workers should be compensated if they contracted them at work.

In a formal ‘recommendation on the schedule of occupational diseases,’ Brussels calls on governments “to introduce as soon as possible” rules covering “compensation and preventative measures” for such medical conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investing Euro 14 million to create a ‘CASCADE’ network of excellence investigating the presence and effect of harmful chemicals in common foodstuffs. It will include more than 20 universities, research institutes and businesses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over an updating of EU food labelling legislation ensuring all potentially allergenic ingredients are named. It has accepted final amendments passed by the European Parliament, so the new directive will now become law.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SCIENTISTS from the UK’s Institute for Animal Health have pin-pointed 60 genes associated with the deadly E. coli bacterium. The scientists said identifying the genes, which are needed by E. coli O157 to survive in calves’ intestines, should prove valuable in developing drugs or vaccines to prevent the bacterium from colonising.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW method of dying fabric that uses electrons instead of chemical reducing agents has been developed by a European research project, whose scientists say the process offers a “cleaner and more cost effective alternative to traditional methods of dying.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A NEW method of dying fabric that uses electrons instead of chemical reducing agents is said to offer a “cleaner and more cost effective alternative to traditional methods of dying.” The new process – ECDVAT – has been developed by the textile’s department of the University of Innsbruck, Austria in a project funded by EU research and development network EUREKA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has this week (Mon22/10) launched the results of a programme of studies into the health problems caused by indoor pollutants, with paints and coatings named as prime sources. Releasing the reports at the opening of the 13th annual conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, at Stresa, Italy, the centre said its data revealed “insights into potential causes of acute indoor symptoms such as allergies, asthma, mucous irritation, headaches and tiredness.”…