Search Results for: Environmental health

Keith Nuthall
A EUROPEAN Union research project is about to be launched, which will create a new sophisticated model for reducing tyre noise. This ‘microscopic road traffic noise-modelling project,’ (ROTRANOMO), will consider the type of vehicle, tyre-road interaction, traffic management, driver behaviour, environmental planning and vehicle structure changes to develop a more effective noise calculation model.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A CRACKDOWN on healthcare fraud netted the US government more than US$1.3 billion (GBPounds880 million) last year, according to recently released federal statistics. Efforts to better detect and eliminate health care fraud grew over the last five years, due, says Washington, to the establishment of its national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program under the Clinton administration.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SHIPPING safety stands to be improved due to the recent launch of the United Nations Atlas of the Oceans. The atlas is an Internet based encyclopaedic resource that will enable seafarers to access information in real time, to find out about weather, dangerous routes, sea collisions, the state of ocean resources, maps, emergencies and threats to human health from deteriorating marine environment.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in baked and fried food, including biscuits and cookies, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

DESPITE 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws concerning car recycling. There have, however, been new binding rules emerging at state level.…

BTY MARK ROWE
THIS summer saw a watershed for BAT that may prove to be one of the most significant in the company’s 100-year history. It produced a Social Report, all 156 pages of it, outlining the company’s views on the sensitive issues that surround the business of producing tobacco.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IN September 1901 the legendary American tycoon James Buchanan “Buck” Duke entered the office of the Player brothers’ cigarette firm in Nottingham with the unforgettable words: “Hello boys, I’m Duke from New York, come to buy your business.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the operation of the European Union’s European Agency for Safety and Health at Work are being considered, as part of an overhaul of EU health and safety legislation and programmes. The EU Council of Ministers has signalled a wave of action in this area, welcoming the recent European Commission Communication (policy paper) on a new ‘strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006).’…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
GERMANY is set to become the first European country to transpose the controversial EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (ELV), while Britain appears to be dragging its feet over implementation.

All 15 Member States failed to meet the ELV deadline of April 21, 2002, for introducing laws on the disposal and recycling of vehicles.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN leather sector is receiving a major boost from its national government, both in terms of increased production support and export assistance. Industry players are hopeful of receiving IND Rupees 8 billion support under the country’s 10th (five year) Plan.…