Search Results for: Environmental health

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE WORLD Health Organisation will hold an “expert consultation” after the Swedish National Food Administration claimed accumulations of the toxin acrylamide have been found in baked and fried food, including biscuits and cookies, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

Keith Nuthall
AS the European Union moves towards the mandatory application of International Accounting Standards for listed companies, the European Commission has proposed reforms to the existing directives that harmonise national accounting laws that will remain in place for other businesses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US state of Maine recently passed a landmark bill that for the first

time forces automotive manufacturers to pay for the removal of mercury from

vehicles. Auto makers will now be responsible for removing and disposing of

mercury-added components, such as switches in boot and bonnet lights, before vehicles are crushed or shredded for recycling

Despite 10.5 million vehicles reaching the end of their useful lives each

year in the United States, the country has enacted no federal laws

concerning car recycling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union research project is about to be launched, which will create a new sophisticated model for reducing tyre noise. This ‘microscopic road traffic noise-modelling project,’ (ROTRANOMO), will consider the type of vehicle, tyre-road interaction, traffic management, driver behaviour, environmental planning and vehicle structure changes to develop a more effective noise calculation model.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REFORMS to the operation of the European Union’s European Agency for Safety and Health at Work are being considered, as part of an overhaul of EU health and safety legislation and programmes. The EU Council of Ministers has signalled a wave of action in this area, welcoming the recent European Commission Communication (policy paper) on a new ‘strategy on health and safety at work (2002-2006).’…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has drawn up plans to lend up to Euro 62 million to the City of Leipzig, in Germany, funding preparatory ground-works for an industrial park, which would include a new car manufacturing plant. The factory would be completed by 2004 in the north of the city on old farmland, renamed Industriepark Leipzig Nord.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
FIVE YEARS since it was first proposed, the End-of-Life (ELV) Vehicle Directive has just about made it to the statute books of a handful of EU member states. A directive both controversial and complex, it was maybe surprising, if a little disappointing, that the deadline of April 21, 2002 for transposition went by without a single EU country passing legislation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERY minute of every day a million smokers light up a cigarette made by BAT and the company’s goal is that every one of them is perfect. How does BAT manage this, and at the same time meet its production, technical and environmental challenges when operations are on such a colossal scale ?…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency says that US ethanol producers may be violating the country’s Clean Air Act. In a letter to the industry, the EPA said "most, if not all" US ethanol producing plants are releasing volatile organic compounds into the air.…

BY PHILIP FINE

The US National Mining Association is predicting that over the next five years, more than 15,000 mining jobs will be lost in West Virginia after a recent court decision that centred around a single definition of "fill material," whose disposal will henceforth only be permitted for projects mainly concerned with construction.…