Search Results for: Environmental health

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced it will give Lebanon a US$3.4 million grant to finance a new initiative aimed at boosting renewable energy generation, as well as increasing energy efficiency and environmental protection in this eastern Mediterranean country.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ASSESSMENT of the cost of European Commission plans to introduce legislation to control the emission of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons has been released by Brussels. The study examines the benefits to human health of reducing concentrations of PAH’s in the air to meet different possible limit values, and theh economic costs involved in meeting them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
LIGHT drinking may be healthier than not drinking or heavy drinking, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, adding yet another angle to the on-going debate of health risks or benefits associated with alcohol consumption.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADA’S tobacco industry is risking a political struggle by missing a deadline, set by the federal government, to remove terms such as “light” and “mild” from cigarette packets, claiming that more time is needed to properly inform consumers on a new system that would replace the traditional descriptions.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
IMPORTANT reforms in air safety have been approved by the European Parliament in its first reading of legislation to create a new European Aviation Safety Agency. In particular MEP’s want to set up a new independent authority, on the lines of the US National Transportation Safety Board and separate from the EASA, to investigate aircraft accidents and make recommendations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened proposed restrictions on the use of pentaBDE, (pentabromodiphenyl ether), because of concerns that the flame retardant used to make fire-proof furniture and upholstery harms human health and the environment and has been found in increasing quantities in breast milk.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
LABELS on drinks sold as health supplements – which contain “healthy” vitamins or minerals – will have to carry specific information as to content and usage under an EU directive approved by EU ministers in a “political agreement” today Thursday.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has tightened proposed restrictions on the use of pentaBDE, (pentabromodiphenyl ether), because of concerns that the flame retardant used to make fire-proof furniture and upholstery harms human health and the environment and has been found in increasing quantities in breast milk.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European Union research study has concluded that the ‘true’ price of using renewable energy is actually much more competitive than usually assumed, when the costs of cleaning up the resulting pollution of fossil fuel power generation and dealing with the resulting health problems are taken into account.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MOST governments are keenly concerned about the quality of food their people eat, and quite rightly so. They pass laws to ensure food purity and safety and that’s all very commendable – but it can be overdone.

Regulations can, sometimes deliberately, be drawn up so tightly that they effectively bar the sale of food produced in other countries, thus constituting an impediment to free trade.…