Search Results for: Environmental Health

BY ALAN OSBORN
FOLLOWING a review of the integrated pollution prevention and control directive of 1996, the European Commission has concluded that the 15 EU Member States have fallen behind in compliance threatening “a negative impact on the environment and human health as well as on the internal market and the modernisation of European industry.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have approved a regulation authorising the sale of discounted HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis medicines in poor countries with little pharmaceutical production capacity, while ensuring that these cheap drugs are not re-exported back to the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA has won a disputes hearing at the WTO, with a panel ruling that Japan’s quarantine measures on imported American apples cannot be justified on health grounds under the rules of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL imaging from the European Space Agency’s ERS-2 satellite helped Swedish, German and Danish oil containment ships scoop up the bulk of an oil slick released from a sunken Chinese freighter that threatened the southern coast of Sweden this month.(June)…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a European Union Advisory Committee on Safety, Hygiene and Health Protection at Work has been approved; it will help the European Commission prepare health and safety initiatives and boost cooperation between national health and safety administrations, trade unions and employers’ organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) may like to pose as the globe’s environmental crusader, setting a good example to the bad old dirty United States, but the latest figures from the European Environment Agency (EEA) – for 2001 – have shown that for a second year running, EU greenhouse gas emissions have risen.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government has announced increased funding to help its state food laboratories deal with possible terrorist attacks directly or indirectly involving food poisoning. By expanded their capacities, Washington hopes to increase its effectiveness and efficiency in testing meat and other food specimens to help public health officials deal with potential incidents of biological or chemical terrorism.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
New EU-wide rules to regulate waste from extractive industries like mining and quarrying have been proposed by the European Commission in a move to prevent the pollution of water and soil arising out of the long-term storage of waste in tailings ponds, waste heaps, lakes and rivers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SENIOR European Commission official has attacked calls by environmental groups that the ongoing review of EU treaties should abolish Euratom. François Lamoureux, Commission energy and transport director general said its main provisions should be preserved in reforms proposed this summer by the European Convention, the body tasked with renewing the EU’s administrative structure.…