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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LACK of coordination amongst EU Member States’ research teams regarding the study of BSE has been revealed by a new European inventory of previous work and that in progress, collated by the European Commission.

It has highlighted areas where better links between national research programmes is required.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have proposed changing the name of the nascent European Food Authority, to make it a European Food Safety Authority. The proposal is one of 200 amendments agreed by the parliament’s environment committee for approval by a later plenary session.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed reforms to EU rules on pig welfare. They now ban the confinement of pregnant pigs to individual stalls and tethering of sows and gilts. The amended directive also includes rules on improving the living environment of pigs and piglets, such as a minimum size of sow pens, and requires permanent access to rooting materials and fibre food.…

BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING

PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass

MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves

VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike

COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers

Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager

Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,

Whitworth Building,

Scottish Enterprise technology park,

East Kilbride,

G75 0QD,

Scotland

Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438

e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations World Food Programme has launched an unprecedented health awareness campaign to persuade Ethiopian truckers to reduce their sexual promiscuity, because of the risk that they will be struck down by AIDS.

The programme will focus on the 2,300 Ethiopian truck drivers that it has hired to deliver relief food from the port of Djibouti to the interior of their war and drought ravaged country, which is also a centre of AIDS infection; estimates say that 10.6 per cent of the population is HIV positive.…

KEITH NUTHALL
WATER has no great value in itself. It is it what it helps create that counts. And for every improvement in efficiency in water use, communities and companies get richer and consume less water when doing so. It is what economists call a virtuous circle.…

BY KATE REW
LOS Angeles Airport (LAX) has begun a six-month programme to recycle food leftovers into power generators, which feed electricity into the local grid. The programme has been launched in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.…

Keith Nuthall
LOS Angeles Airport (LAX) last month began a six-month programme to recycle food leftovers into power generators, which feed electricity into the local grid. The programme has been launched in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO), has handed over 290 new fishing boats, canoes and nets to Mozambican fishermen, whose equipment was destroyed when flooding and a cyclone struck the country last year.

Its donation – funded by the Italian government – was the final stage of an FAO rehabilitation project for Inhambane, Sofala and Gaza Provinces.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ducked making a potentially controversial ruling on the legality under EU freedom of trade rules of the Swedish laws banning alcohol advertising.

Judges had heard a case referred by the Stockholm district court, which had been brought by Sweden’s consumer ombudsman against a food and drink magazine Gourmet, which had carried ads for red wine and whisky.…