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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FREE trade deal struck between the United States and Australia that will phase out all tariffs on non-ferrous metals traded between the two countries has been welcomed by a specialist US federal committee, consulted as part of the ratification process.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
THE LIBERALISATION of electricity and gas supplies in the European Union (EU) was finally agreed in 2003 and will come into full effect this year for business customers and in 2007 for households and all others.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife-based eco-tourism. The DMZ, a strip of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea and is littered with countless numbers of land mines, a no-mans-land since the end of the Korean War more than 50 years ago.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife eco-tourism. The DMZ, an area of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea across the Korean Peninsula.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENTS and international institutions of the European Union (EU) need to better prepare for cooperative responses to large-scale natural and mad-made disasters that inevitably cause damage on a cross-border scale, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has created three new scientific advisory committees that will inform it about a series of non-food environmental health issues. The committees have been established to replace some old Brussels scientific committees whose food duties have been transferred to the European Food Safety Authority.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has proposed amendments to a new European Union energy efficiency directive, that would force the European Commission to introduce tough electricity consumption standards for office equipment, heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems. These rules would be introduced within a year of the directive coming into force.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE US Environmental Protection Agency is studying any possible health risks associated with chemicals released into the air when a bag of microwave popcorn is popped or opened. Exposure to flavourer diacetyl has been linked to a rare lung disease contracted by some factory workers in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EU-supported research scheme has developed practical guidelines on recycling waste from 19 food production processes. AWARENET worked out technical solutions for recycling its oils, sugars, vitamins, colorants and antioxidants. *http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.simpledocument&PJ_RCN=5059864&CFID=58430&CFTOKEN=21966306…