Summary of newsmakers of the previous day - 18.12. 2006

Foresters strive to guard coniferous trees

They will have a lot of work before Christmas Eve. However, completely prevent thefts of trees is impossible. Foresters and forest employees began to guard coniferous trees against thieves. However, they will have manage most work closely before the Christmas Eve. “So as to prevent thefts our forest guards move at easily accessible places for foot-passengers and motorists. They guard younger coniferous growths on both working days and weekend”, said Vladimír Pokorný from Forest Administration in Ruda nad Moravou to Právo. In his opinion also special firms, which work in the growths, help forest guards as well as a local police which check certain places. “Members of a forest guard are equipped with a service card, a badge and fine pads.”

Negotiation on standards for broilers welfare in EU failed

Over five billion broilers yearly fattened and slaughtered in the EU will remain even in the future without a legal protection on farms. Negotiations on approval of a regulation proposal which would determine minimal standards for chickens bred for fattening failed. An interruption of discussion was cased especially refusal of proposed very moderate measures for a welfare reform from a side of France, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The reglation proposal set concrete data to which control bodies could act. Poultry which is the most numerous group of farm animals fatten yearly in the European Union will remain even in the future without a legal protection. It is necessary to renew the discussions as soon as possible.

Poland prepares building of six Temelíns

Poland will face a nuclear boom in next years. By the year 2030 our neighbours are about to build nuclear power station with capacity of at least 4,5 thousand megawatts which equals to three blocks with European reactors EPR or at least four Temelín ones. A government study supposes that an optimum, however, with the most probability unattainable, represents at the time 11,5 thousand of nuclear megawatts (roughly six Temelín reactors). The first nuclear generator should be started around 2020, the special journal Nucleonic Week informed.

Procedures of prolongation of liquid eggs durability

Among principles coming into questions for production of ESL-egg products there are special heat exchangers, impulse waves and heat filling. With use of certain combinations of temperature and time it is possible to produce a liquid egg product with prolonged durability (ESL), it means that it can be stored by 14 – 16 weeks longer in temperature 4 °C than in a standard pasteurization procedure. In development of new technologies an aim is either prolongation of durability without increase of till this time used temperatures or achievement of the same durability but with use of more regardful lower temperatures and thereby obtaining of a product with better function characteristics.