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ECO-COMPETITION REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPETITIVENESS report by the European Commission has claimed that environmental improvements made European Union (EU) industries in 2002 has not blunted their efficiency. The paper says that despite large reductions in greenhouse, acidifying, ozone-depleting, and ozone-precursor gases, EU manufacturing industry made strides in boosting productivity, compared with rivals in Japan and the USA.…
SILICON - EFSA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOO much vitamin C can play havoc with digestion, but sand is safe to eat….well silicon is, anyway, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). It has advised that silicon is “unlikely to pose a risk of adverse health effects”.…
PRION NETWORK
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) network of excellence on prion disease research was launched last week (May 28) at a conference in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France. Involving 52 laboratories from 20 countries, Neuroprion commands European Commission funding of Euro 14.4 million over five years, focusing on BSE, vCJD, and scrapie.…
COASTAL EROSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POLLUTER pays principle should apply regarding planning consent for developments maybe worsening coastal erosion, the European Commission has suggested. Its report Living with Coastal Erosion in Europe: Sediment and Space for Sustainability says road, house and business construction has increased erosion and that public authorities should offload some responsibilities for protection and damage restoration to direct beneficiaries.…
SMILE/CIVITAS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in Camden and Nottingham have been held up as good practice examples in the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport by the European Union’s (EU) SMILE project, which concluded last week at a conference in La Rochelle, France (27-28 May).…
PESTICIDES BAN
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL restrictions on using nine pesticides and producing dioxins and furans came into force last week (17-5), under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which has now been ratified. The pesticides include aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, endrin, toxaphene, DDT, chlordane and mirex.…
EFSA - BSE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given its approval to proposals being debated in Whitehall that Britain scrap its upper 30-month age limit for exportable cattle, ruling the UK should be considered a “moderate risk” for BSE exposure.…
UK REACH PROPOSAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been asked by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to develop for formal debate in Brussels its alternative proposal for registering chemicals under the EU’s new REACH chemical control system. The UK has suggested a “one substance – one registration” approach, simpler than existing proposals – which have sparked criticisms from other member countries and the European Commission.…
TUMOUR VIRUS
BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS at America’s St Louis University are destroying tumours with genetically engineered viruses that infect cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells unharmed. Results published in the journal Cancer Research have claimed cancer cells are destroyed when the viruses reproduce themselves.…
OLIVE-POMACE OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STATE aid of Euro 30 million has been authorised for the Spanish olive-pomace oil industry, as compensation for expensive manufacturing improvements it has been forced to make in the wake of a 2001 scandal about polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination.…