Search Results for: Environmental health

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 KEITH NUTHALL
ANOTHER Briton has been appointed head of a key EU environmental health organisation. This time, Professor Jacqueline McGlade, an environmental scientist, will become the next Executive Director of the European Environment Agency. Prof. McGlade, 47, is currently Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Professorial Fellow in Environmental Informatics and Mathematics at University College, London.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL financing consortium is to fund a previously abandoned Euro 166 million project to build a waste water treatment plant in St Petersburg, Russia. Its aim is to prevent pollution in the Gulf of Finland, which causes environmental health problems in neighbouring Finland and Estonia.…

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
FIGURES presented to European Union ministers by EU health Commissioner David Byrne suggest that BSE infection is continuing to decline across Europe. Although the total number of cases detected in tests remained roughly constant in 2002 compared with 2001, there were 10 per cent more tests carried out last year, (around 10 million), than the previous year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched a new online guide offering advice to healthcare employees on how to reduce their exposure to occupational accidents, which are 34 per cent higher than the European Union (EU) average.…

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 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 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 ALAN OSBORN
LIFE isn’t going to get any easier for hill and mountain farmers if Dr Franz Fischler, EU farm commissioner, has his way. He wants to “de-couple” payments from production for farmers generally and introduce direct fixed supports based on farm size, past output and acceptance of environmental and other standards.…