Search Results for: Environmental Health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPED countries have agreed to enter into formal talks with developing countries, if poorer food exporting states encounter problems complying with any new food health restrictions imposed by richer importing trading partners. The commitment was framed in a Canadian proposal to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) sanitary and phytosanitary measures committee under the ongoing Doha development round talks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded Euro 2.2 million database is being developed in Macedonia to identify and track beef, pork, veal, lamb and goat livestock, monitoring their health status and preventing sick beasts being exported into the European Union (EU).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW European Food Safety Authority is to draw up a positive list of food flavourings that have been scientifically validated as presenting no risk to health, nor misleading consumers as to their effect, following agreement of a contract with the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN sugar industry has promised to abide by high ethical standards in future, including its dealings with developing countries. CEFS (Comité Européen des Fatricants de Sucre) and EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) have signed a joint code of conduct on corporate social responsibility.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE by European Union (EU) health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne to kick-start preparations to lift the five year de-facto moratorium on genetically modified organism imports into the EU has been blocked by Germany, France, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
TECHNOLOGY may have produced many different ways of checking underground networks of pipes and sewers by remote control, but one problem remains the same: secure access. Even the smallest aperture can invite vandalism or, at its worst, deliberate contamination if it can be forced or broken easily.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded Euro 2.2 million database is being developed in Macedonia to identify and track beef, veal, lamb and goat livestock, monitoring their health status and preventing sick beasts being exported into the EU. The project is being managed by the European Agency for Reconstruction, which recently helped stage a seminar on the system involving EU experts.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US’S Bush administration has revived several President Clinton-era proposed rules meant to protect coal miners from black lung disease. In particular, this decision reverses a December 2001, Bush decision to stop the continuous monitoring of coal dust in underground mines and for US Mine Safety and Health Administration

(MSHA) to verify dust control plans at surface mines.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative has been launched that will boost the quality of processed fish products from developing countries, to ease the health and safety difficulties that they encounter when exporting to richer countries. This Aquatic Food Product Initiative (AFPI) has set up an interactive Internet portal to supply the latest fish product safety information to boost training and best practice.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LOT of people are saying that cigar smoking may be in serious long-term decline given the way things are going in America. World Tobacco is inclined to treat the figures a little more cautiously. It is true there has almost certainly been a sharp drop in American consumption in recent years but, as Chris Boon, the premium cigar manager at British American Tobacco, points out, there are no true figures: “you draw own conclusions and arrive at an estimate.”…