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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH may apply to the pharmaceutical industry, even though medicines themselves are largely exempt. Administrative demands and environmental assessments may be made on the sector because of a current debate over what constitutes an ‘article’ under REACH: whether it is an entire product – a packet of pills – or the individual elements making that product – the pills, the packet and its label.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MANY international organisations have an impact on the fish farming sector, although with quite a narrow remit, drawing up specialist health and environmental standards for the industry, for instance. However, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has a broader role, with freedom to pursue a wide variety of imaginative schemes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ENVIRONMENTAL tests and checks that must be carried out under the European Union’s (EU) REACH programme could be even tougher than previously envisaged by many companies handling or processing chemicals. This is because of a current debate over what constitutes an ‘article’ under REACH: whether it is an entire product – for instance a bottle of suntan oil – or the individual elements making that product – the bottle, the cap, label and the lotion.…

BY MARK ROWE

CONCERNS over the way in which soybean production takes place have led to calls for the Brazilian government to dramatically escalate its efforts to clean up the industry. Groups campaigning for a socially and environmentally responsible approach to soy production have called on the Brazilian government to speed up the process of providing satellite images that can map the scale of soy-related deforestation, and regulate the ownership of land earmarked for soy production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT could be said that preparation, preparation and preparation is the best way to deal with the European Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH, and maybe this is truer for the plastics industry than many others, because much of it is based on, well….chemical…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

COMPANIES fighting commercial crime are always on the lookout for new resources and tools to deal with the problem. Where better to look than the world’s best universities in the USA? Monica Dobie reports.

THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a national and international leader in research into crime and justice.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE STEREOTYPE of Europeans favouring public transport over private cars is deeply flawed according to a new European Commission-funded opinion poll that interviewed 25,767 people. Pollsters Gallup not only confirmed that private motor transport is the most widespread means of making journeys in the EU (53% of those polled drove rather than cycled, walked or took public transport), 22% of these motorists would not drive less, even with dramatic improvements to rail, bus, air and boat transport.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

DIFFERENT parts of the world have devised a wide range of regulations to promote biofuels as an answer to traditional fuels posed by supply and environmental concerns. Japan began promoting alternative fuels in the mid-70s following the oil crisis, replacing oil-powered electric generators with units driven by alternative fuels, as well as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POLITICAL struggle is looming between the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over a directive controlling hazardous substances within surface waters in the EU. Ministers have rejected amendments passed by MEPs that would add an additional 28 substances to the 33 earmarked for maximum contamination limits in surface water within initial proposals from the European Commission.…