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BY DENMARK FINCH AND FRITZ BRETT
INTRO

REDUCING stress amongst employees at work can make a major improvement to the bottom line of companies; indeed, so expensive is the problem, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, it is thought to cost the EU at least Euro 20 billion a year in lost time and health costs and affect more than 40 million of its employees.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists are claiming they have proof that wine is an anti-biotic, strong enough to kill virulent bugs such as E.coli and salmonella. Researcher Mark Daeschel from Oregon State University has added that white wine may be more beneficial to health than red wine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has infuriated the European Commission by unanimously authorising the Greek government to pay Euro 90 million in additional state aid to its cotton producers in 2001-2. Sweden, Denmark and Germany abstained on the vote by the EU agriculture council.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA and African countries have called for food health import controls allowed by WTO rules to be weakened regarding developing country exporters, claiming they are so tough and bureaucratic, they prevent them exporting healthy food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has – almost certainly – a new tobacco advertising directive, which its framers will hope will be more legally robust than its predecessor; struck down by the European Court of Justice. The EU Council of Ministers saved the European Parliament from having to debate the proposal a second time by accepting the few amendments that were agreed at a parliamentary plenary session in November.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.

These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE QUEBEC Superior Court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Canada’s three major tobacco companies, JTI- Macdonald, Benson and Hedges and Imperial Tobacco who argued graphic health warnings on cigarette packages violated their right to freedom of expression.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has unveiled plans to lend the Polish Airports State Enterprise, (Przedsiebiorstwo Panstwowe Porty Lotnicze) Euro 200 million to construct a second terminal at Warsaw International Airport, Poland. The project should enable the airport to accommodate existing and rapidly rising demand for air transport in Poland, and, said an EIB note “contribute to Poland’s integration into the EU, and to strengthening transport links between the EU and Poland.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work and fishing are to be priority problems tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A LONG-LIST of nine names was being considered this month (January) by the World Health Organisation as potential successors to Gro Harlem Brundtland as director general next year. Dr Brundtland has conducted a relentless campaign against smoking and the organisation may be difficult to elect a similar anti-tobacco crusader given the differences she has had with the US.…