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BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS concerns increase about the security of the European Union’s (EU) supplies of oil and gas, the European Commission has put in place a network of security experts charged with monitoring threats to the EU’s energy flows and raising alarms if necessary.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) expert committee on emerging risks has warned of a lack of knowledge about the environmental and health effects of using nano-sized particles in mineral-based products and their packaging, such as those using nano-clays. The committee has called for urgent research, especially regarding the potential environmental risk posed by nanomineral and other nanotechnologies.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY is opening the path to a new generation of monitoring systems for environmental and water based pollution, a Royal Society conference examining the growing influence of the emerging science on the environment was told.

The London conference, entitled ‘Nanotechnology – Products and Processes for Environmental Benefit’, heard that, while traditional biosensors worked well, they were relatively fragile and susceptible to degradation.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
UNDER consideration since 1996, the relocation of Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish wholesale market has been postponed at least a year until 2013 due to fears among traders that the new site is badly polluted.

A new state-of-the-art market was scheduled to open on the Toyosu Wharf site, a 93-acre man-made island in Tokyo Bay, in 2012, but the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has given in to demands from people in the business to conduct a new environmental assessment of the site.…

BY MARK ROWE, in London
NANOTECHNOLOGY has huge implications for the oil and gas industry, according to leading scientists who attended a conference on the impact of this cutting edge science on the environment at the Royal Society in London. They stressed the technology offers the prospect of carbon emission reduction, resource use minimisation, hazardous chemical substitution, the chance to dramatically reduce fraud, and pollution reversal techniques.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union-funded research project INASOOP (Integrated Approach to Sustainable Olive Oil and Table Olive Production) is to develop guidelines helping olive producers improve their environmental performance and become more competitive. *http://www.inasoop.info/…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) chemical control system REACH is possibly the most complex piece of legislation issued by an international organisation known for its administrative and legal complexity, and will pose significant compliance challenges for the oils and fats sector.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission is to announce tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd May) a shake-up of the regulations covering access to the occupation of road transport operator and access to the road haulage market. Brussels believes that significant changes in the internal road transport market since the present directive was approved in 2002 have led to distortion of competition, a higher number of non-resident undertakings “poorly complying with road safety and social rules” and mistrust of haulage operators from other EU countries.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE
ASIA’S paint and coatings industry may be growing but South Korea’s share of the market is on the decline. Indeed, the South Korea sector’s annual sales of US$3 billion make a small contribution to the global industry, where demand is predicted to reach US$83 billion this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRESH concern about the safety of mercury in dental amalgam has sparked a new inquiry into the issue by the European Union’s scientific committee on health and environmental risks. The committee wants by June 4 post-1990 peer reviewed research papers, safety evaluation data, information on amalgam clinical usage and other relevant scientific material.…