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BY MJ DESCHAMPS

INDUSTRIES with disposable products such as the personal care product sector have had to re-assess their packaging to meet national recycling quotas and help reduce unnecessary waste, especially in the European Union (EU) with its packaging and packaging waste directive.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

Nestlé India has rejected allegations from India’s premier environmental health organisation that its instant noodles Maggi could harm consumer health. Speaking to just-food a company spokesperson said Maggi is "adapted to Indian tastes and we have been constantly improving its nutritional profile and have reduced salt, reduced trans-fatty acids and added nutrients".…

BY MARK GODFREY, IN BEIJING

DINERS in Beijing were appalled recently to discover that restaurants on the city’s most famed dining street have been using recycled – or so called ‘gutter’ – cooking oil processed by an underground industry of oil collectors.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, Japan came to a standstill for a minute of silence to remember the Great East Japan Earthquake and its tsunami.

And while the cosmetics and personal care sector might not have been in a position to provide much assistance in the physical reconstruction of communities that were impacted, it has been innovative in its efforts to assist those in need.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a new material flow cost accounting standard designed to improve the environmental management of companies. The idea, said ISO, is to "trace and quantify material input and output flows and stocks within an organisation…identify material and energy use practices, and understand these in costs and physical terms.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) auto industry is awaiting the announcement by the EU executive, the European Commission, of a moratorium on new technical regulations, which could come in June. If it happens, it will be announced by EU industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani, who is responsible for technical rules on vehicles across the EU, and is worried that a European auto sector, already having a tough time, is being hamstrung by a conveyor belt of new rules.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

PLASTICS companies in the European Union (EU) storing potentially dangerous chemicals on their premises will have to by 2015 abide by tougher management standards preventing industrial accidents. This is because the European Parliament, the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers have struck an agreement on the contents of a new law – the Seveso III directive – that will include new safety rules for chemical-using businesses.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) auto industry is awaiting the announcement by the EU executive, the European Commission, of a moratorium on new technical regulations, which could come in June. If it happens, it will be announced by EU industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani, who is responsible for technical rules on vehicles across the EU, and is worried that a European auto sector, already having a tough time, is being hamstrung by a conveyor belt of new rules.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT

LAST year the Turkish government announced it had set a target of building a "minimum" of 20 nuclear reactors by 2030. Detailed plans have been developed to commission two nuclear power plants, and the Turkish government has announced plans for three more plants to meet rising power demand and ensure energy security.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has asked all US-based clothing and apparel manufacturers to report the new use of possibly harmful chemicals found in textile pigments and dyes. The chemicals, which also have other industrial applications, include polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs), benzidine dyes and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD).…