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EUROPLASTICS - PLASTIC-COAL PROJECT
BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers are experimenting with co-firing plastic waste with coal in the blast furnace iron-making process. If the trials are successful this technique will – said the Australian government – provide a way to dispose of large volumes of plastic waste, whilst benefiting the environment.…
SINGAPORE PAINT INDUSTRY
BY MARK ROWE
IN tough economic times, an industry has to sell itself harder. It is no surprise, then, that if you glance at the websites of Singapore’s leading paint companies, you will see plenty of buzzwords such as “technology”, “improvement” and “development”.…
US BIRD FLU
BY PHILIP FINE
HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…
NEW BSE STRAINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, are continuing investigations into apparently unlinked outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan to establish whether or not they are new strains of the disease.…
NEW BSE STRAINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, are continuing investigations into apparently unlinked outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan to establish whether or not they are new strains of the disease.…
BIRD FLUE ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL and MARK ROWE
THE STANDING Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health of the European Union (EU) has extended until August 15 the suspension of EU imports of fresh chicken meat and chicken products from Thailand because of the bird flu outbreak.…
INDONESIA - BUMI
BY MARK ROWE
BUMI Resources, Indonesia’s largest coal producer, has set a target of increasing coal output by 40 per cent this year. In a move that the company says is aimed to capitalise on an increase in global coal prices that may rise by as much as 20 per cent, Bumi says it plans to produce around 43 million tons, up from 30.6 million last year.…
USA V JAPAN - WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN has lost its appeal against a WTO ruling that ruled its quarantine measures on imported apples from the USA could not be legally justified on health grounds.…
NEW BSE STRAINS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS from the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation are investigating outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan, to confirm whether they are new strains of the disease. An ad hoc group of experts from the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Japan has been convened at the OIE’s Paris headquarters to review new test data.…
JAPAN WTO FAILURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE JAPANESE government has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel ruling that had concluded the United States followed WTO rules when staging a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on Japan exports of corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products.…