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EEA SIGNALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency (EEA) has released a package of statistical warnings that Europe’s environment is getting dirtier, despite efforts to prevent unsustainable development. In its 2004 EEA Signals report, the agency warns that airborne particulates and ground-level ozone are causing health problems in cities, despite a reduction in industrial and transport emissions (by 30 and 36 per cent respectively from 1990-2001).…
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORRIED about the onset of an Ice Age in one week, following the switching-off of the North Atlantic Current, a la recent Hollywood blockbuster the Day After Tomorrow? Well kick back, and don’t worry. It’s not going to happen, says the European Environment Agency (EEA).…
KILLER ALMONDS
BY MONICA DOBIE
AN OUTBREAK of salmonella in almonds harming 25 US citizens has resulted in 13 million pounds of almonds being recalled from one of the world’s largest almond producers, Paramount Farms, in central California. The USA Food and Drug Administration received reports of food poisoning from six states with people reporting fever, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.…
HYPERACTIVITY - ADDITIVES
BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN who consume food additives such as colourings and preservatives are more likely to have behavioural problems according to British research. The study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood was conducted on 277 three-year-olds over four weeks.…
BUSINESS TRAVEL FEATURE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…
CHILD ROAD ACCIDENTS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN is one of the safest countries in the world as regards fatal road accidents involving children along with Sweden, Japan and Italy, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed. It says that more children are killed on the road than in any other type of accident, with South Korea, New Zealand, Portugal and the United States having the highest child road-fatality rates.…
AIRBAGS THREAT
BY MONICA DOBIE
SAFETY experts say that careful UK airbag manufacturing standards have so far prevented British rescue workers and drivers from being harmed by a rash of accidents now occurring in the United States. Firefighters have told the American press that air bags inflating accidentally because of car fires have broken firefighters’ fingers, knocked out teeth and, in one case, caused internal bleeding.…
ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - ISO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has issued a technical report, advising businesses on safeguarding the trustworthiness of electronically-stored information, including policies, security measures, procedures, and audit trials. ISO said: “Organisations have a vested interest in ensuring the authenticity and integrity of electronic image files, whether created or imported – throughout their whole life cycle, from initial capture to eventual destruction – as evidence of business transactions and events.”…
FLOOD WARNING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NUMBER of people worldwide at risk from devastating floods will double from one billion today to two billion by 2050 without greater efforts to prevention and predict such disasters, United Nations University (UNU) specialists have claimed. In a first detailed policy statement from a new UNU environment and human security institute in Bonn, Germany, they point out floods currently annually inflict “up to 25,000 annual deaths, extensive homelessness, disaster-induced disease, crop and livestock damage and other serious harm” on over 520 million people.…
IMO CODE UPDATE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS worldwide are scrambling to certify their international shipping and ports as compliant with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code, which comes into force on July 1. Figures released today (16/06) by the UN agency show that for the main flag states, 28.7 per cent of 21,374 ships now surveyed have had their security measures certified, up from 9.2 per cent on May 17 (for 20,722 ships).…