Search Results for: Environmental Health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is moving towards imposing Stage III emission limits on newly manufactured plant, with the European Parliament debating plans to withhold type approval for tractors, cranes, bulldozers and other non-road mobile engines. Under the proposals, which have already been approved in principle by the EP’s environment committee, new levels for nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions will be introduced for engines (other than constant speed motors) of 130 kW to 560 kW from June 30, 2005; of 75 to 130 kW and 19 to 37 kW from December 31, 2005; of 37 to 75 kW from December 31, 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH & SAFETY COMPENSATION

THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union member countries to adopt an updated and common EU list of metals and other elements which can cause health problems at work, for which employees be compensated if they contract such illnesses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEWLY developed farm-to-fork database system could help better trace the source of food poisoning outbreaks in beef cattle. Developed in the USA by Kansas-based VeriPrime Inc, the system labels each animal with a coded metal tag, bearing birth and slaughter information.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HEALTH ministers of the 10 governments in eastern and southern Europe due to join the European Union next May have joined together to demand changes to legislation now under discussion that would extend the protection of patent protection for new medicines to 10 years across the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on European Union member countries – including Britain – to adopt an updated and common EU list of illnesses for which workers should be compensated if they contracted them at work.

In a formal ‘recommendation on the schedule of occupational diseases,’ Brussels calls on governments “to introduce as soon as possible” rules covering “compensation and preventative measures” for such medical conditions.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer – which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin – has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ONCE again significant recovery of coal mining in Kosovo has been frustrated by unforeseen natural disasters – in this case the collapse last November of the coal face in the Bardh coal mine after very heavy rain, causing serious damage to equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXTERNAL social, environmental and economic costs imposed by nuclear energy are comparatively low, according to European Commission research. Estimated at Euro (cents) per kilowatt hour, nuclear electricity’s costs are below wind energy, but roughly level with hydro, ranging from 0.03 in Portugal and 1 cent in France and Greece.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union study into indoor pollution has concluded that environmental tobacco smoke is hard to clear from enclosed spaces. Using its ‘Indoortron’ laboratory model, EU Joint Research Centre scientists have shown that increased ventilation systems in buildings “do not have a significant influence on the air concentration of tobacco components.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…