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BY PHILIP FINE

HEALTH claims about nuts can now be made following the release of a study finding that the regular consumption of nuts could reduce the risk of heart disease. The US Food and Drug Administration says that research has discovered a 47 per cent lower risk of sudden cardiac death for men who ate nuts at least twice a week compared to those who rarely or never consumed nuts.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that food labels making health claims will have to go through a new government review. They will be vetted through government agencies, such as the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research, relying on consumer and scientific studies.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE AMERICAN Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) says growing food portions are contributing to obesity in the United States. While it says individuals bear the ultimate responsibility for what they eat, the AICR has chided food manufacturers and the restaurant industry for distorting what constitutes an appropriate meal size.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE WORLD’S 20 largest corporations, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron Texaco, have failed to prepare for the economic fall-out of climate change, says Washington DC’s Investor Responsibility Research Center. A study says none of the companies have estimated their potential financial losses from global warming.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out a gloomy message: we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FORMAL state aid inquiry has been launched by the European Commission into a system of compulsory levies on the meat industry in France; Brussels fears it could illegally and unfairly favour the local sale of French-reared meat and livestock, disadvantaging both EU imports and exports from France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NEED for greater openness in the management of scarce water resources in Europe, north Africa, the Middle East and central Asia is required, to better highlight the growing costs of ensuring reliable supplies and persuade the public that more investment is needed to guarantee them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its first Euro 166 million tranche of funding for food and food safety projects, via the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme on research, which will spend Euro 16.5 million on all subjects until 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is offering a research contract for publishing experts to analyse the economic and technical evolution of Europe’s scientific publications. The study would also focus on the implications of recent changes for publishing houses, retailers and consumers.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
BUILDINGS and lives may be safer during a fire thanks to a unique polymer plastic under development that turns into a ceramic when exposed to fire, and which industry experts predict should attract the interest of insurers.…