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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that in 2007 Campylobacter infections were the most common disease passed onto humans from meat and dairy livestock and food. Britain has a significant problem, having the second highest number of human infections: 57,815 – more than a quarter of all European Union (EU) cases.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEGOTIATORS are close to forging an international agreement that would ban vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from ports worldwide. The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has been hosting the talks, and has reported the "general outlines… on ‘port state’ measures that would deny vessels engaged in IUU fishing access to fishing ports are largely in place."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing nanotechnology-based medicine able to deliver targeted drugs to kill cancer tumours. The Euro 11 million NANOTHER project, coordinated by the GAIKER-IK4 Technological Centre, in Spain’s Basque Country, is creating medicines based on two types of nanoparticles:

*’polymeric’ particles, which direct therapeutic compounds to tumours and include antibodies capable of recognising and attacking tumour cells; plus

*’magnetic’ particles, also helping find tumours, while aiding their elimination through increasing their temperature.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MIDDLE East and North Africa region (that economists like to award the acronym ‘MENA’) consumes 6% of the global vegetable oil market and sucks in 15% of global imports, with strong growth across the board on the back of rising per capita GDP and a burgeoning population.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it wants Euro 3.5 billion of the general European Union (EU) economic recovery plan it announced in November spent on energy investment. It has proposed spending Euro 1.75 billion on gas and electricity interconnection projects; Euro 500 million on offshore wind power; and Euro 1.25 billion on carbon capture and storage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED report from the European Environment Agency (EEA), which highlights signals of environmental problems within Europe, says England and Wales can be labelled "water stressed", along with only eight other European countries. They are Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Malta and Spain.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY GRAHAM TEARSE

THE FESTIVE season has by-passed the road haulage business in France. There is overriding gloom as businesses are daily going bust amid a devastating economic downturn, while there is widespread dread over the impending arrival of cabotage rights for east European transporters.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

IT has been a devastating year for Italian hauliers. In the last 10 months, 8,000 mostly single-vehicle hauliers have left the industry according to Gianni Montalli, president of the National Transport Union (CAN FITA Unione Nazionale Imprese di Trasporto).…