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ECOLABEL DOUBT EXPRESSED BY MEPS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOUBT has been expressed by the European Parliament’s environment committee about European Commission plans to apply the EU’s ecolabel system to processed food, asking Brussels first to consider whether reliable environmental criteria can be set for food and drink.…

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CHINA SPEEDS UP NUCLEAR POWER PROJECTS



BY WANG FANGQING

THE GLOBAL recession has forced China, whose economy relies largely on exports, to turn to boosting its domestic economy with a budget as huge as four trillion Chinese Yuan – RMB (US$ 585 billion) being unveiled last November by the central government.…

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MEPS DEFEND RIGHTS OF CITIZENS TO DEMAND INFORMATION ABOUT MEAT AND DAIRY LIVESTOCK FEED



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament claims to have struck a deal with European Union (EU) ministers over the rights of consumers (and hence environmental health officers) to demand information about feed consumed by meat and dairy farm animals. The issue is a contentious one, balancing health concerns about outbreaks of feed-linked disease such as BSE and dioxin poisoning with the rights of feed companies to protect the confidentiality of their ingredient formulae.…

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ECOLABEL DOUBT EXPRESSED BY MEPS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOUBT has been expressed by the European Parliament’s environment committee about European Commission plans to apply the EU’s ecolabel system to confectionery and other processed foods, asking Brussels first to consider whether reliable environmental criteria can be set for food and drink.…

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INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON FOOD AND DRINK REGULATORS WORLDWIDE



BY ALAN OSBORN

STANDFIRST

Every country has its own food and drink regulatory body or bodies: in the first place to ensure that its citizens eat safely and in the second to help safeguard its position in the rapidly-growing world food trade.…

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION STRUGGLES TO HOLD THE LINE AGAINST FLOOD OF EU AUTO AID



BY KEITH NUTHALL

COLLAPSING demand in the European Union’s (EU) auto industry is piling so much pressure on its national governments to save their own manufacturers one casualty could be the EU’s laws restricting public subsidies.
These ‘state aid’ rules have long been a lynchpin of EU membership.…

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BIOFUELS POSE RISK TO BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS TREND IN COSMETICS SECTOR



BY MARK ROWE

FOR the past 10 years, the message from the environmental movement has been "biofuels good, fossil fuels bad". And the search for alternatives has exercised many industries, not least the cosmetics sector, which widely uses mineral oils, but has increasingly been looking for ways to use bio-based oils and fats.…

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CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SUBSIDIES - UNDER PRESSURE, BUT STILL AVAILABLE



BY ALAN OSBORN, LUCY JONES and KEITH NUTHALL

INTRODUCTION

CLOTHING and textile production and trade subsidies are under pressure today, as they have not been for many years. There has been a steady trend towards liberalisation in the sector worldwide, stemming from the abolition of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) in January 2005 and with it, then end of restrictive quotas for imports for the WTO’s 152 member countries.…

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CHINA'S BOOMING HYDROPOWER SECTOR IS CAUSING SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS



BY MARK GODFREY

THE BUREAUCRATS and engineers who run China’s booming hydropower sector will be in listening mode in April when the world descends on Beijing for the second International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Equipment. The theme of this year’s government-sponsored gathering – ‘Sustainable China Hydropower Industry’ – reflects worries about the environmental impact of recent massive hydropower projects in China.…

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EU SCIENTISTS RECOMMEND PROBE INTO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RISK OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CALL has been made by senior European Union (EU) scientists for studies into concerns that electromagnetic fields, such as those caused by power cables and mobile phones, could cause Alzheimer’s disease. It comes in a report from the EU’s scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks, which has reviewed the ever-growing scientific literature on environmental health concerns about electromagnetic fields (ELF is a common acronym).…

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