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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
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 MONICA DOBIE
NEW research indicates that the Amish have an obesity rate of only 4 per cent despite a diet heavy in meat.

The study said the religious group that shuns technology, stays trim because of high levels of daily activity.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new energy taxation directive have been proposed by the European Commission for the eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May (barring Cyprus).

They would be added to the already long list of exemptions negotiated by existing Member States that prompted EU internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein to liken the legislation to “Gruyere cheese”.…

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 MONICA DOBIE
ADDING Vitamin E to the diets of turkeys may reduce the instances of people contracting listeriosis, the potentially deadly bacterial foodborne illness. Scientists from the United States’ Agricultural Research Service have found that supplementing turkeys’ diets with the vitamin stimulates their immune responses, helping them clear the gut of the microorganism that causes the disease.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE STENCH from liquid waste is rarely pleasant, especially for nearby residential areas, so technology from a European Union (EU) funded project will be welcome, if its developers deliver a claim it can reduce such disgusting odours by 95 per cent.…

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.…