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THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that the sweetener aspartame is safe for human consumption at current recommended levels of consumption. Following a review of evidence provided both by animal and human studies, EFSA experts have ruled out a potential risk of aspartame causing damage to genes and inducing cancer for most consumers.…

THE PAKISTAN government has started acquiring 1,562 acres of land near Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s most populous and main cotton producing province, Punjab, for a proposed major garments manufacturing centre.

Major General (Retd) Javed Iqbal, chief executive officer of the Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC), which is developing this so-called ‘garments city’ and some other industrial estates in the province, said that a pre-feasibility study has now been completed.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, in Brussels

THE EUROPEAN Commission, the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers have agreed a law introducing measures that national and local authorities have to respect when they decide to set operating restrictions at European airports limiting aircraft noise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has provisionally recommended that exposure levels to consumers from the plastic packaging chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) be lowered sharply. This follows a review of more than 450 studies, which identified “likely” damage to consumers’ livers, kidneys and potential harm to mammary glands “linked to exposure to the chemical.”…

BY JENS KASTNER, in Taipei

THE TAIWAN textile dyeing and finishing sectors have never quite recovered from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) abolition of global textile quotas in 2005. It resulted in the closure of many stand-alone units by making their labour-intensive manufacturing processes on the relatively wealthy island uncompetitive.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has created a global model for using export credits in new railway infrastructure projects, including rail control, electrification, tracks, rolling stock, and related construction and engineering work. The system covers contract repayment terms and more.…

IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…

Policymakers and industrial officials across China’s industrial minerals complex face an uneasy Chinese New Year break, as they assess how best to balance new policy imperatives from Beijing with their own often-competing interests.

The historic ‘third plenary’ central committee meeting of China’s top leaders in Beijing last November concluded with a “resolution” pledging to allow the market to play a more “decisive” role in the allocation of resources.…

The European Union (EU) needs to tailor its energy policy and carbon Emissions Trading System (ETS) approach to the realities of the steel sector, Theo Henrar, chairman of the management board of Tata Steel Nederland told Steel First.

“The ETS is one-size-fits-all and is putting energy intensive industries in competitive disadvantage,” he said, calling for realistic benchmarks to be used when calculating the CO2 emissions allowances for the industry.…