Search Results for: Environmental Health
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BALKANS WATER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has called on the governments of the Balkans to pay more attention to the quality of their respective water sources and supplies, warning that neglect is leading to increases in pollution and damage from flooding.…
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from a consortium of high ranking European research teams has predicted that the world’s efforts to prevent greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to failure, even while the European Commission strives to force EU Member States to meet their Kyoto commitments.…
GERMANY - FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
GERMANY has been preventing a collective acceptance by the 15 EU countries on the United Nations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. As in the negotiations at the World Health Organisation over the convention, at EU Council of Ministers meetings Germany has stood out, (mirroring the US position), against key aspects of the text, notably the ban on tobacco advertising.…
FOOD TERROR
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. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are expanding the National Laboratory Response Network and the Food Emergency Response Network.…
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is preparing to strengthen the proposed European Union (EU) directive on environmental liability, which is designed to ensure that polluters pay for damage that they cause through intent or negligence.
MEP’s on the parliament’s legal affairs and internal market committee are supporting amendments that would extend the scope of this legislation.…
CODEX GUIDELINES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD food standards organisation Codex Alimentarius has asked governments to comment on draft health guidelines on additives and contaminants by September 30, including draft maximum levels for lead in fish, tin in canned food, plus cadmium levels in rice, soy beans, mollusks and peanuts.…
SEED BREEDING THINK PIECE
BY ALAN OSBORN
WHAT a complex and mysterious thing wheat is! Scientists tell us that modern wheat is a hexaploid, which means that the long-distant ancestors of wheat “hybridised in a way that combined three copies of the original genome to produce a genome with over 150,000 genes.”…
GERMANY - FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
BY ALAN OSBORN
GERMANY has been preventing a collective acceptance by the 15 EU countries on the United Nations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. As in the negotiations at the World Health Organisation over the convention, at EU Council of Ministers meetings Germany has stood out, (mirroring the US position), against key aspects of the text, notably the ban on tobacco advertising.…
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPE-WIDE campaign promoting safety in the construction sector has been launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Coordinated by the EU’s Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC), the campaign includes the dissemination of good practice and checklists, for instance on working safely from height.…
CONSTRUCTION SAFETY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPE-WIDE campaign promoting safety in the construction sector has been launched by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Coordinated by the EU’s Senior Labour Inspectors’ Committee (SLIC), the campaign includes the dissemination of good practice and checklists, for instance on working safely from height.…