Space pioneer fined
Private rocket-builder Scaled Composites has been fined $25,870 over an accident that killed three of its employees in July 2007. California’s industrial safety agency said the company failed to fully train employees to handle nitrous oxide, which exploded during tests of its SpaceShipTwo craft.
Cloned meat ‘fit to eat’
Food safety authorities in Europe and the US have independently declared meat and milk from cloned livestock to be safe to eat. Not that we’re likely to taste it any time soon: both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Food Safety Authority say cloned…
