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BLUEBERRY RESEARCH
BY PHILIP FINE
THERE is evidence that wild blueberries, native to the USA’s Maine, Atlantic Canada and Quebec, can lower the risks of cardiovascular disease. A University of Maine study is the first using rats to demonstrate a relationship between consumption of whole wild blueberries and calming reactions that can lead to high blood pressure.…
EU AGENCY - OAS DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…
PECTIN EXTRACTION
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA could become a major pectin producer after a Penn State University (Pennsylvania) researcher developed a process to extract high-quality pectin from orange peels. The complex carbohydrate, used to thicken jellies and fruit fillings, has been traditionally slow cooked by Europeans using lime peels imported from Mexico and south America.…
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
BY DEIRDRE MASON
250 words, DM Pounds 48, plus expenses: Train/tube travel from Honor Oak Park to Piccadilly return on 4 November: ?6.20, Phone card ?5 (Tickets should come in post – if not – can you ask Deirdre if she’s sending them in – of not, just send in the claim anyway.…
BROADBAND - OECD
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) committee has called on governments to promote competition within the emerging broadband and wireless sectors. The advice comes from the OECD committee on information, computer and communications policy, which outlined principles that should guide the development of DSL, cable, fixed wireless and satellite.…
E TENS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a European Commission plan to increase the amount of European Union (EU) funding for cross-border telecommunications infrastructure installation via its e-TEN (trans-European networks) programme. MEPs backed boosting the maximum proportion of a project’s deployment costs that can be sourced from e-TENs budgets from 10 to 30 per cent.…
ARTIFICIAL VIRUSES
BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists have successfully developed a synthetic virus in only two weeks, creating a breakthrough technique encouraging researchers to believe that they may within 10 years be able to create viruses large enough to eat pollution and even create hydrogen fuel as a by-product.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to approve a detailed fishing access deal allowing EU fishing boats access to the Atlantic fishing waters off west Africa’a Guinea Bissau until June 2006. Under the agreement, licences to fish shrimp will be granted to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek vessels, with boats from Spain (enjoying the overwhelming majority of rights), Italy and Greece being allowed to take fin-fish/cephalopods.…
EU WAVE ENERGY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research group investigating wave energy has called for greater efforts to publicise the technology, to help neutralise environmental opposition to proposed projects. The WaveNet thematic network claims that “by far the biggest barrier” to public acceptance of wave energy is its low public profile.…
COTTON GIN
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.…