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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STATE Veterinary Service, in Scotland, has culled around 14,000 poultry, mainly grey partridge being reared for meat, to stamp out an outbreak of Newcastle Disease in East Lothian. Restrictions on moving poultry and hatching eggs have been imposed within a 3km ‘protection zone’ and 10km ‘surveillance zone’ centred on Fenton Barns, Drem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has hailed her agency’s initiative to develop a common scientific approach to assess the fish feed additives as "strongly in the interests of environmental protection and the health and safety of consumers."…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Balderson, Ontario

STRONG family links and a dislike of European Union bureaucracy was what brought David James, 62, to Canada to start over again. In 1998, the James family, including wife Ann, 61, daughter Debra, 39, and son-in law Rob, 39, packed up their belongings and moved to a small farming community called Balderson, roughly 50 miles from Canada’s capital, Ottawa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a major public consultation exercise, which will include fish farms, to forge a common European Union (EU) method for assessing the environmental risks posed by fish feed. EFSA is not happy that in the European Union "no specific environmental risk assessment guidance exists for the aquatic compartment".…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN research network Eureka has developed a computerised screening process that will help pharmaceutical companies assess thousands of plants for a potentially lucrative source of therapeutic compounds. At present, researchers trawl through plant samples looking for a useful species, but Eureka’s E!…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCOTLAND’S Dounreay nuclear plant needs to update its airborne radiation monitoring systems, a European Commission inspection report has concluded. Brussels’ nuclear energy directorate has concluded after an inspection of the Caithness site that Dounreay’s existing “existing high volume air samplers” should be replaced with “new generation devices when these have proven their reliability”.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCOTLAND’S Dounreay nuclear plant needs to update its airborne radiation monitoring systems, a European Commission inspection report has concluded. Brussels’ nuclear energy directorate has concluded after an inspection of the Caithness site that Dounreay’s existing "existing high volume air samplers" should be replaced with "new generation devices when these have proven their reliability".…

BY MARK ROWE

IF proof were needed that nanotechnology is more than an esoteric scientific discipline then it surely comes with the news that nanotech is about to come to a fast-food restaurant near you. Last month (March), OilFresh, a California-based company, commercially launched a nanotechnology-based frying oil in the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MASS production of a vaccine to fight the H5N1 bird flu strain in humans could begin within a year, after pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline launched clinical trials in Germany and Belgium.

The company is testing two vaccines: the first would be targeted at fighting a pandemic after an outbreak; the second aimed at advance inoculations.…

BY MARK ROWE

NANOTECHNOLOGY is set to dramatically enhance the packaging process across a range of industries in the next few years. Major areas of development include enhancing the performance of packaging materials, prolonging shelf life, antimicrobial packaging and interactive packaging.…