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RADIATION PROTECTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is making available a report on the availability of radiation protection experts in the European Union (EU). The paper includes an overview of definitions, laws, certification, training and mutual recognition of the qualifications of these experts.…
LIBERALISATION FEATURE
BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
THE LIBERALISATION of electricity and gas supplies in the European Union (EU) was finally agreed in 2003 and will come into full effect this year for business customers and in 2007 for households and all others.…
DEPLETED URANIUM - SCOTLAND
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SCOTTISH MEP has raised concerns at the European Parliament about reports of the Dundrennan firing range, in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, being used by the British military to test depleted uranium weapons. Green MEP Neil MacCormick alleged the firing may have dumped 29 tonnes of depleted uranium off south-west Scotland, a concern to both British and Irish citizens, and, he claimed, a likely breach of the UN Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution.…
DMZ WILDLIFE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife-based eco-tourism. The DMZ, a strip of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea and is littered with countless numbers of land mines, a no-mans-land since the end of the Korean War more than 50 years ago.…
DMZ WILDLIFE
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife eco-tourism. The DMZ, an area of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea across the Korean Peninsula.…
ANI-BACTERIAL SOAPS
BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW American study has suggested that anti-bacterial soaps do not protect consumers against common health ailments as much as they expect. Researchers at Columbia University gave both anti-bacterial cleaning products and normal soaps and detergents to 120 families in New York City and monitored them for nearly one year.…
HUMAN WAHSING MACHINES
BY MONICA DOBIE
TO cater for Japan’s increasingly old and frail population, electronics giant Sanyo is marketing an automated human washing machine. The user sits in a chair that is rolled backward into place then the machine’s sides fold up like a clamshell, enclosing the bather, whose head sticks out of the top.…
CHINA PACKAGING FEATURE
BY EDWARD PETERS
THE PAST decade has seen China grasp an increasing share of the world’s cosmetic packaging industry. Low production prices and international manufacturing standards — to say nothing of an increasing appreciation of the beauty business — have all contributed to the People’s Republic upping its packaging profile.…
SARA LEE INDIA
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S Sara Lee Household & Body Care India Pvt. Ltd cleaning has invested IND Rupees 2 million (US$40,000) in creating a certified environment managed system (EMS) aimed at saving the company money. It will consume less water and fuel, while boosting the recycling of waste, such as plastics and corrugated paper boxes.…
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has created a new Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP), which will advise it on the safety of non-food goods. Its 19 members will especially be tasked with examining the allergenic properties of cosmetics. The committee replaces Brussels’ old Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-food Products Intended for Consumers.…