Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has widened health research under the oncoming EU Sixth Framework Programme to include studies on traditional diseases, widening European Commission plans to limiting its life science work to genomics and biotechnology. By contrast, the parliament wants money spent on cancer, cardiovascular diseases, degenerative nervous system illnesses, (including CJD), diabetes, viral hepatitis C, allergies, rare diseases and ageing conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has agreed at its ministerial meeting in Qatar, to intensify its ongoing agriculture talks, which cover confectionary products; it was part of a decision to launch a general round of trade negotiations. Ministers established a deadline of the next WTO summit, (in 2003), for member governments to propose a complete list of formal concessions they are prepared to make on quotas, tariffs, subsidies and other trade barriers for food and drink goods.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WTO’S Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures has agreed information that should be demanded by food importing countries and supplied by exporting countries to make sure that products are safe. The deal is designed to make it easier for developing countries to prove that their products are healthy enough for sale abroad.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE SOUTH African drinks industry has attacked a government announcement that it intends to curb alcohol advertising on television and also order that health-warning labels be added to containers in all the country’s 11 official languages.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EXPENSIVE programmes and legislative initiatives made by the European Union to boost rail, shipping and combined transport, while shrinking the road transport sector, appear to be failing, according to a report TERM 2001, from the European Environment Agency.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE TORONTO Hydro-Electric System has launched a large-scale test of vegetable-based bio-diesel fuel in its fleet of more than one hundred cars, trucks and vans as a first step to converting to 100 per cent vegetable-based fuel.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission announced this week (Monday October 29) that it will ban from June 30, 2003, the use of chemical product hexachloroethane, (HCE), in the manufacture or processing of all non-ferrous metals where it is used to reduce impurities.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE THREE important central European tobacco-growing countries of Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary will be able to claim production subsidies from Brussels when they join the European Union on the same basis as existing EU producers, European Commission officials have confirmed.…

KEITH NUTHALL
IT is common knowledge that the European Union is becoming increasingly involved in public water policy, legislating to control the environmental quality of water supplies and watercourses. Brussels ambitions to improve water services do not, however, end at the external borders of the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has appealed for proposals for EU grants, which would fund technological initiatives boosting the clean and efficient use of solid fuels, notably the use of clean coal technologies by power plants to limit emissions such as carbon dioxide.…