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USA BIRD FLU RISK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has reported USA claims of now being completely free of bird flu. The country’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says the outbreak in Texas in April in a non-commercial flock and two live bird markets has been “completely eradicated”.…
NEW COMMISSIONERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE and Cyprus are taking over the key European Commission jobs in the environmental health world, in the new team unveiled by incoming Brussels president José Durão Barroso. Taking over from Sweden’s Margot Wallström as environment commissioner will be Greek Stavros Dimas, who has served as stand in employment commissioner since his compatriot Anna Diamontopoulou returned to national politics in March.…
US FUSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Energy (DoE) “is set to cancel work” on its six-year-old FIRE (fusion ignition research experiment), the European Commission is predicting. Its research directorate general was convinced by Anne Davies – DoE fusion energy office director – branding FIRE’s copper magnets “dead end technology”.…
KYPRIANOU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AWARD to Cyprus of the key European Commission health and consumer affairs portfolio could signal a waning of Brussels’ enthusiasm for tougher rules against smoking and cigarette sales. Cypriot Markos Kyprianou, 44, has been given the job in the new Commission that takes office in November.…
CHINA CRIME FEATURE
BY EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong
HONG Kong might be renowned for being one of the safest cities in the world – mugging and other forms of street violence are practically unknown – but that’s not to say that commercial crime doesn’t rear its ugly head in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, reports Edward Peters.…
IRAQ MONITORING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A lack of metering in Iraq means “there could be no guarantee that all the (locally produced) oil could be accounted for”, the UN Security Council has been warned. The International Monitoring and Advisory Board of the Development Fund for Iraq said the problem would “take at least a year to resolve.”…
FRANCE IEA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GAZ de France’s domestic market dominance is risking energy liberalisation progress made by the French government, the International Energy Authority has warned. Although Paris had taken “commendable steps towards a sound legal and regulatory framework for liberalised energy markets….challenges…
IFC BRAZIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will provide up to US$90 million in financing to Comgás, Brazil’s largest piped natural gas distributor. The loan help the company expand and upgrade its distribution network, making gas available to 70,000 new customers in five years, and 200,000 in 10.…
ISO PUBLIC HEALTH
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched detailed technical guidelines on the use and development of smart cards carrying health data that could be read by doctors and nurses worldwide. The standard ISO 21549 is the latest in a programme of work on harmonising medical records carried out by the Geneva-based organisation; three parts have now been published and five more will be released next year.…
ACID SEAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S oceans are acidifying by absorbing an unprecedented amount of carbon dioxide, maybe threatening the long-term survival of many marine species, especially calcifying organisms including corals and shellfish. This conclusion came in research released to a UNESCO/ International Council for Science meeting.…