Search Results for: Environmental health

BY ALAN OSBORN
Flower importers will have to meet tougher requirements over health certification for certain species this year following amendments to the EU’s plant health regime agreed recently by the council of agriculture ministers.

The ministers amended the EU Directive 2000/29/EC, which deals with protective measures against the introduction and spread of organisms harmful to plants or plant products in the Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPANISH government is seeking to head off a move at the European Parliament to persuade the European Commission that Spain’s ambitious national hydrological plan breaks European Union (EU) environmental legislation and so should not be eligible for funding from Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW treatment to protect chickens against infection has been developed to phase out antibiotics usage. Australian science agency CSIRO says naturally produced proteins called cytokines can improve the health of poultry; they are administered like vaccines and are naturally produced by chickens themselves, extracted, then copied.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH government backed scientists have launched a pioneering research project that could see natural plant fibres being used to manufacture car body shells. Biomat is a four-year project using various forms of flax and hemp fibre, as well as willow, and is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank is planning to provide Italy’s EniPower with a substantial Euro 400 million loan to help design, construct and operate a series of combined cycle gas turbines which would provide electricity to Italy’s national grid and stream to associated industrial sites.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PLANS to lend the Slovakian government Euro 30 million to help its water sector abide by European Union environmental standards have been drawn up by the European Investment Bank. The loan would fund the design, supervision and construction of priority investment schemes in water supply and wastewater collection and treatment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to take action against the UK government at the European Court of Justice over the failure of south-east London’s Bromley Council to require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to granting planning permission in 1998 for a massive commercial development of Crystal Palace.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONTRARY to popular belief, a recent American study found no positive association between risk of breast cancer and meat consumption. The Nurses’ Health Study followed 88,647 women for 18 years. Investigators found no evidence that a diet high in animal protein was associated with risk of breast cancer.…