Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has asked EU ministers to approve new health checks and movement restrictions for sheep and goats during an outbreak of diseases such as foot and mouth, rabies, anthrax or brucellosis. The proposed regulation also includes toughened quarantine controls on animals imported from outside the EU.…

BY SIGRÚN DAVÍDSDOTTIR
AN HEP plant designed to power a new aluminium smelter, the first constructed by Alcoa Inc. in twenty years, is under preparation in eastern Iceland. The plant would produce 285,000 tonnes of aluminium a year. At the same time Alcoa is closing down two plants in the US and reducing production in a third.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has won the first – usually decisive – battle at the European Court of Justice over a case brought by Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco, asking its judges to annul Directive 2001/37/EC on the composition and designation of cigarettes.…

Keith Nuthall
INSURANCE companies will be able to reduce their exposure to natural and technological disasters within the European Union and eastern Europe in the future, assuming EU ministers agree plans to establish a central contingency emergency aid fund commanding between Euro 500,000 and Euro 1 billion; it would be raided by Member States and eastern European countries wanting to join the EU that fall victim to such disasters.…

BY MARK ROWE
GORY images of diseased lungs may soon appear on cigarette packs in Singapore, alongside health warnings in an amendment to the country’s Smoking Control Act. Images including pictures of tar-filled lungs on cigarette packets are to be put before the Singapore Parliament this autumn, according to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.…

BY MARK ROWE
Malaysia is to ban all forms of tobacco advertising and sponsorship next year, with temporary exemptions for the lucrative Formula One grand prix and soccer events. Health Minister Chua Jui Meng said British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco Industry and Philip Morris have expressed willingness to drop all forms of promotion by the end of the year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has recommended that systematic testing for antibiotic residues should be introduced for all imports of Brazilian poultry meat, products and preparations, after checks revealed that cargoes have been contaminated with restricted nitrofurans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed tougher EU rules for health controls on meat, dairy products and live bivalve molluscs, including science-based approaches to meat inspection and a continuous flow of information between farms and slaughterhouses. There would be monitoring programme of mollusc harvesting areas and bans on consumption of milk or is products where health standards have been broken.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN unkind moments, critics of the insurance industry might say that the sector revels in misfortune, making money out of pessimism and encouraging its clients to prepare for the worst. Of course, like most unconditional statements about business, the truth is far off and is a lot more murky.…

BY PHILIP FINE

An American company that normally supplies its breeding services to

livestock producers has been developing a sideline serving the

pharmaceutical industry. Its leap into biotech could offer a

glimpse of how the meat and livestock trade might discover some future

crossover

business.…