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BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have welcomed the European Commission’s plan to develop the EU’s first environment and health strategy (for 2004-2010), calling on Brussels officials to develop research models assessing the health impact of public policies, (and associated socio-economic affects).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE TOBACCO industry is facing another assault from the European Union (EU), this time at the hands of a new environment and health strategy for 2004-2010 being developed by the European Commission and which has already received approval in principal from the EU Council of Ministers.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally called for nuclear specialists involved in collaborative studies with experts from other European Union (EU) Member States to submit proposals for grants from the EU’s sixth framework programme for research. Brussels has a budget of Euro 61 million – paid via EURATOM – for this work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRANCO-ITALIAN research team have developed a faster and cheaper manufacturing process for fine aluminium rings used in rocket boosters, replacing existing vertical lathes and milling machines with a single system. The old process involves moving rings between machines, requiring additional equipment to secure them during shaping.…

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 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.…

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 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 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.…