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BY KEITH NUTHALL

TNE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called for African local authorities and governments to unite with fuel and automobile companies to fight the growing blight of urban smog in the continent’s cities. Air pollution is becoming a serious problem in these booming urban areas and has been discussed at an August conference ‘Better Air Quality for African Cities’, held at UNEP’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has hailed her agency’s initiative to develop a common scientific approach to assess the fish feed additives as "strongly in the interests of environmental protection and the health and safety of consumers."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW broom is sweeping through the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with the appointment of its second executive director, Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, and she wants to make the agency’s communications clearer, notably on oils and fats.

EFSA has been busy in the sector, carrying out risk assessments on trans fatty acids in foods and their affect on human health, following information requests from the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A SPECIAL Interpol expert group will be gathering contacts from around the word for a database of potential assistance to deal with future outbreaks of bioterrorism. Meeting at Interpol’s Lyons, France, headquarters, the group was tasked with "identifying other leading authorities and entities throughout the world that can provide knowledge and support to Interpol member countries", an inquiry that could involve some British environmental health departments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE APPOINTMENT of a new executive director of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has come at a crucial time for this European Union (EU) body that has such an impact on environmental health officers’ work. It is now four-years-old and so its future role and function can be moulded with the hindsight of experience.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Balderson, Ontario

STRONG family links and a dislike of European Union bureaucracy was what brought David James, 62, to Canada to start over again. In 1998, the James family, including wife Ann, 61, daughter Debra, 39, and son-in law Rob, 39, packed up their belongings and moved to a small farming community called Balderson, roughly 50 miles from Canada’s capital, Ottawa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILS of a comprehensive plan to mitigate environmental and social problems caused by a planned Vietnam tungsten and fluorspar open cast mine have been released by the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which is expected to support the project.…

BY MARK ROWE

ACCESSION to the European Union (EU), with its attendant necessity to comply with environmental directives, along with a surprising surge in water-based coatings, have combined to make the past year an eventful one for the Polish paint industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE APPOINTMENT of a new executive director of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has come at a crucial time for this important European Union (EU) body. It is now four-years-old and so its future role and function can be moulded with the hindsight of experience.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed a software ‘uncertainty manager’, which can help pharmaceutical manufacturers manage unpredictable results when testing products for additive concentration, contaminant residues and other microscopic concerns. Because of many variables, from human error to prevailing weather, results can vary, even for the same test on a single medicine.…