Search Results for: Environmental health
10 results out of 7103 results found for 'Environmental health'.
POLIO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLIO has driven to the edge of extinction, the World Health Organisation has claimed, with only 537 cases being reported globally in 2001. However, an expert panel overseeing the WHO campaign against the disease has warned that given the current prevalence of conflict, polio must be wiped out now, as delays could jeopardise the effort launched in 1988, when polio paralysed more than 1,000 children daily.…
TREATY POLICING
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is offering to check how countries are implementing environmental treaties such as monitoring the growth of forests under the Kyoto Protocol or their rate of shrinkage under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Its Treaty Enforcement Services using Earth Observation can use ESA satellites to check the extent of national woodland stocks.…
DISEASE AIRCON
BY MARK ROWE
THE JAPANESE electronics giant Sharp says it has created an air conditioner that not only cools your office but also cleans up the air, cutting down on the colds and sniffles that plague air-conditioned environments.
Tests carried out by scientists at the Japanese Ministry of Health and Labour Welfare, found that Sharp’s air conditioner reduced the airborne bacteria count (E.…
MACDONALD LITE
BY MONICA DOBIE
JTI-Macdonald Corp., Canada, has proposed that the federal government in Ottawa introduce an additional warning message on cigarette packages which would indicate that reduced tar products are not safer and that the tar levels should be prominent on cigarette packs.…
CANADA CONSULTANTS
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN consultancies Wardrop Engineering and Micon International are to offer joint advice on metallurgical projects, from initial resource estimation, feasibility studies and operational analysis, to site closure. Micon’s specialisms include ore reserve estimation, metallurgical design, mineral property valuation and monitoring of project development for international banking syndicates.…
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation meeting has issued detailed recommendations on how to improve industrial relations in the oil and gas production and refining industries. The paper concludes that industrial relations in the sector will become more complex as it juggles environmental and social concerns with cost reduction.…
FOOT-AND-MOUTH DIRECTIVE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHAPE of a draft European directive on controlling future foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks has been unveiled by EU health and consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne. Speaking to the European Parliament, he said that the legislation would reform rules on vaccination, boosting the use of new tests to make this treatment more effective and avoiding the “unnecessary slaughter and destruction of healthy animals.”…
SE ASIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered tests on all imports of shrimps from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, (Burma), and poultry from Thailand to ensure antibiotic residues do not exceed EU health limits, following concerns raised by spot-checks.…
EU ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Environment Agency has claimed that energy use is still rising in the European Union, mainly because of increasing transport consumption and has alleged that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions could return to their 1990 levels by the year 2010 unless Brussels and Member States take firm action; this would include promoting renewable energy, said the EEA.…
TREATY POLICING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is to use its satellites to check the implementation of environmental treaties, monitoring forest growth under Kyoto, their shrinkage under the Convention to Combat Desertification and the survival of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention.…