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BY KEITH NUTHALL

WASTE lead batteries litter Indian villages, towns and cities, where they often poison children, adults and animals. As a result, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank, is backing a new eco-labelling scheme that certifies effective collection schemes and manufacturing standards making waste lead batteries less dangerous.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to head off growing public concerns about the potential environmental health problems associated with food and related packaging containing nanoparticles. It has released a code of conduct on nanotechnology research for European Union member states, asking them to ensure such studies do not produce harmful products.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE 21st century is seeing a rapid development in the packaging of oils, scents and fats, instigated in part by the increasing global demand for olive oil, along with the burgeoning industry in essential oils.

One of the key trends has been towards the use of packaging to offer fresh products, a development augmented by the increasing perception worldwide of olive oil as a health food product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) scientific committee on health and environmental risks has claimed there could be flaws in existing EU risk assessments regarding the protection of workers and consumers handling products containing the polymer and textile flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RICH member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are pooling experts and budgets to assess the environmental risks of using nanomaterials, including those incorporated into textiles. The OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials will manage the programme; it already can call on 100 experts from the OECD’s 30 member countries.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

AS one of South America’s largest economies and the world’s leading

exporter of soy and sunflower oil, Argentina experienced a GDP growth rate

of 8.4 percent in 2006 and 7.9 percent a year earlier, according to the US

Energy and Information Administration.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AFTER 30 years of international sanctions, limited uranium reserves and stiff political opposition to the recent Indo-US nuclear deal, Indian scientists are still pushing ahead with nuclear research – following the country’s long established Three Stage Nuclear power programme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a Euro 1.6 billion research programme called Clean Sky, to create greener, more environmentally-efficient aircraft. A global scheme, Clean Sky participants include 86 organisations from 16 countries, including 15 research centres and 17 universities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

KEY reforms passed in 2004 designed to raise food production safety standards across the European Union (EU) were never extended to the 10 eastern and southern European countries that joined the EU that year. Some of these states were made subject to temporary special export controls regarding selling food into western Europe upon their joining the EU, but generally food from their manufacturers has flown into Britain and other established member states.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission’s controversial proposals promoting biofuels within the European Union (EU) are already running into political difficulties over their environmental impact. The European Parliament’s environment committee has debated the idea and backed a report saying biofuels should generate half of the CO2 created by mineral fuels – when assessing their production, distribution and consumption – to count towards Brussels’ proposed 10% by 2020 fuel target.…