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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXTERNAL social, environmental and economic costs imposed by nuclear energy are comparatively low, according to European Commission research. Estimated at Euro (cents) per kilowatt hour, nuclear electricity’s costs are below wind energy, but roughly level with hydro, ranging from 0.03 in Portugal and 1 cent in France and Greece.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed a code of practice on the environmentally-friendly use of road salts which should provide good practice advice for British environmental health departments. The guidelines have been developed because of concern that melt-water from roads and storage areas have resulted in high concentrations of chloride in Canadian rivers and lakes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BELGIUM’S poor environmental record in disposing of wastewater should be improved in future with the European Investment Bank (EIB) lending a further loan of Euro 75 million to Aquafin, the company managing treatment in the region of Flanders.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally proposed the plan announced at the inconclusive World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, to decouple cotton grower aid payments from production rates, converting them into direct payments. Although Brussels has shied from complete decoupling, its stated aim is to remove incentives for growers to over-produce cotton.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEWLY developed farm-to-fork database system could help better trace the source of food poisoning outbreaks in beef cattle. Developed in the USA by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc, the system labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing birth and slaughter information.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FOUR US states have taken the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to court, claiming the federal agency has not adequately curbed the nation’s pesticide use and is harming children’s health in the process. The attorney generals of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts say the EPA is not adhering to the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, which dictates strict limits on pesticide use and stipulates that food commonly consumed by children must have pesticide levels 10 times lower than those of adults.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend Austria’s SPB Industrieholding GmbH Euro 35 million to help it build a 800,000 m³ round wood saw lag capacity sawmill at Sebes in Transylvania’s Alba Iulia District, Romania.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EASTERN and southern Europe countries slated to join the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004, have worked small wonders in recent years to set up anti-money laundering regimes, not necessarily because they believe this is good in itself but partly at least because EU entry might not be possible otherwise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union study into indoor pollution has concluded that environmental tobacco smoke is hard to clear from enclosed spaces. Using its ‘Indoortron’ laboratory model, EU Joint Research Centre scientists have shown that increased ventilation systems in buildings “do not have a significant influence on the air concentration of tobacco components.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has this week (Mon22/10) launched the results of a programme of studies into the health problems caused by indoor pollutants. Releasing the reports at the opening of the 13th annual conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, at Stresa, Italy, the centre said its data revealed “insights into potential causes of acute indoor symptoms such as allergies, asthma, mucous irritation, headaches and tiredness.”…