Search Results for: Environmental health

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE QUEBEC Superior Court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Canada’s three major tobacco companies, JTI- Macdonald, Benson and Hedges and Imperial Tobacco who argued graphic health warnings on cigarette packages violated their right to freedom of expression.…

BY MARK ROWE
A MOSLEM consumer group wants Malaysia to ban chicken imports from China, Thailand and the Philippines because of health and religious concerns. The Malaysian Muslim Consumer Association claims that raw chicken from China contained traces of a toxic antibiotic banned by Malaysia’s health ministry and that Chinese slaughtering methods were questionable from a religious point of view.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has rejected a bid by Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco to annul European Union Directive 2001/37/EC on the composition and designation of cigarettes on the grounds that its commercial restrictions were illegally based on freedom of trade powers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICAN scientists are claiming they have proof that wine is an anti-biotic, strong enough to kill virulent bugs such as E.coli and salmonella. Researcher Mark Daeschel from Oregon State University has added that white wine may be more beneficial to health than red wine.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s fisheries committee has welcomed European Commission plans to make aquaculture an integral part of the European Union’s reformed Common Fisheries Policy, while calling for some important changes to existing Brussels blue-prints. It has backed a report written by French conservative MEP Hugues Martin that calls for the EU to fund start-up subsidies in the sector for young people and also grants aimed at improving fish farming’s environmental performance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER privatisation has certainly had its critics, but it has a new supporter in the shape of the European Commission. It has publicly backed the growing privatisation of Europe’s water utilities, with its internal market commissioner praising British government moves to inject competition into its national sector.…

BY MARK ROWE
WARS are usually fought over coveted resources, such as oil, diamonds or fertile land. Now water, the most indispensable of mankind’s needs, is seen as the resource which may spark the armed conflicts of the 21st century.

Indeed, United Nations (UN) cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO is stepping up efforts to calm tension in some of the world’s most water-stressed areas.…

BY DENMARK FINCH AND FRITZ BRETT
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REDUCING stress amongst employees at work can make a major improvement to the bottom line of companies; indeed, so expensive is the problem, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, it is thought to cost the EU at least Euro 20 billion a year in lost time and health costs and affect more than 40 million of its employees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE HANDLING of dangerous substances at work is to be a key priority problem tackled by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) in 2003. Unveiling its programme for next year, the Bilbao-based unit’s director Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, said that a European week on dangerous substances would be staged.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union is to lay down maximum concentrations for 15 natural

substances in natural mineral water that it says may pose long term health

risks in high concentrations. Labelling provisions are also to be strengthened.

If a natural mineral water does not comply it will be required to undergo an authorised separation treatment and some producers will need to invest heavily in treatment processes.…