Search Results for: Environmental health

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched a comprehensive research programme to unmask mysteries surrounding the contraction of venous thrombosis by air passengers, including epidemiological, pathophysiological and clinical studies.

Scientists will aim to determine the frequency and causes of travellers’ thrombosis, to identify who is at greatest risk and what may be done to prevent the condition.…

BY MARK ROWE
BRITISH museums and historic buildings are being encouraged to bid for funding from a GBPounds 80 million financial support package launched by the European Union, designed to build links between neighbouring EU countries.

Its grant awards will be focused on projects that have economic, ecological and social benefits.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
A GROUNDBREAKING and comprehensive resolution on tourism passed by the EU Council of Ministers last week, which contained a wide range of policy goals and plans for action, has been given a lukewarm welcome by the European travel industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has launched a plan to break the World Trade Organisation deadlock over changes to its TRIPS regime (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights), which would allow developing countries to licence imported generic drugs in emergencies, while protecting the global pharmaceutical sector.…

BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU consumer affairs Commissioner David Byrne has unveiled food industry proposals that the European Commission will make later this year. They include regulations on nutritional, functional and health claims made on packaging, updating rules on food contact materials for new types of packaging, non-GM reforms to the EU novel food regulation and amendments to EU legislation on food additives and sweeteners.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE FIRST steps have been taken towards making cigarettes – a cornerstone of small shop revenue – an under-the-counter product worldwide. Laws have already been passed in Canada and Ireland banning the public display of tobacco products, dismaying shopkeepers’ representatives.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
TWO-THIRDS of those landlords and property owners responsible for non-domestic premises in Britain fail to manage the risks associated with asbestos in buildings, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) official has claimed.

Bill Macdonald, who heads the HSE unit responsible for asbestos policy, told delegates at the RoSPA Congress 2002, in Birmingham, that legislation that will soon come into force was necessary because of the widespread failure to manage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
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 fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
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 fried and baked food, to “determine the full extent of the public health risk.”…