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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has released a first edition of a WHO Model Formulary, which – uniquely – gives comprehensive information on all 325 medicines contained in the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs, including data on use, dosage, adverse effects, contra-indications and other health warnings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EMPLOYER liability insurance policies will have to take account of changes to national workplace data protection regulations expected across the EU because of a wide-ranging and detailed public consultation launched by the European Commission.

Brussels has already concluded that there is a need to harmonise the widely divergent rules and practices amongst Member States, so legislation will inevitably be tabled.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a formal investigation procedure into British government plans to grant aid north Wales newsprint producer Shotton Euro 35 million (Pounds 23 million) to enable it produce newsprint from waste paper rather than virgin pulp.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EMERGENCY response networks that have been built up across the European Union (EU) in the wake of the September 11 disaster are being tested next week in Brussels’ first ever civil protection exercise.

Euratox 2002 will simulate a terror attack involving radiological and chemical fall-out and be staged at a French military camp at Canjuers, Var, Côte-d’Azur.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched a package of services designed to help businesses and other organisations reduce the exposure of their staff to workplace stress, a problem it says affects 28 per cent of employees in the European Union (EU).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador is launching legal action against tobacco manufacturers seeking the recovery of health care costs incurred because of smoking, a lawsuit it agreed in principle to pursue in 1999.

Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, of Independence, Missouri, in the USA, has taken the case, for a cut of any damages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) is drawing up detailed guidelines on the recycling of ship scrap, which should be approved at the United Nations (UN) agency’s assembly next year. IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee has noted that while the principle of ship recycling may be sound, working practices and environmental standards in yards “often leave much to be desired.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has produced a Tobacco Atlas, produced with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. It provides statistics such as the differences between countries and genders regarding consumption, the conduct of the tobacco companies, investments by tobacco industry, the costs of tobacco use, illicit trade and litigation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FUTURE of US tariff preferences for Cambodian clothing exports looks guaranteed for another year, after an International Labour Organisation gave the country another relatively clean bill of health regarding working standards in its garment industry. While stressing problems regarding wages, overtime and unions, the UN agency concluded improvements were made to working conditions in various factories following earlier reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…