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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has this week (Mon22/10) launched the results of a programme of studies into the health problems caused by indoor pollutants, with paints and coatings named as prime sources. Releasing the reports at the opening of the 13th annual conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, at Stresa, Italy, the centre said its data revealed “insights into potential causes of acute indoor symptoms such as allergies, asthma, mucous irritation, headaches and tiredness.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has drawn up plans to lend Euro 70 million to help Australia’s Oxiana Resources develop a copper mine in Laos. On the basis of its policies supporting international development, the EIB would fund Oxiana’s development of the Khanong open cast pit, 370 kilometres southeast of the Laos capital Vientiane.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BULGARIA has informed the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it has dropped its plans to impose a temporary safeguard duty on imports of flat-rolled products of non-alloy steel plus iron or steel bars and rods. The decision follows an investigation staged by the Bulgarian government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL agreement has been secured at the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers over an updating of EU food labelling legislation ensuring all potentially allergenic ingredients are named. It has accepted final amendments passed by the European Parliament, so the new directive will now become law.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure is being applied by the European Parliament for negotiators at the ongoing World Trade Organisation’s Doha development round to impede developing countries from privatising their water systems. In a resolution on water services in poor countries, MEP’s called for a “serious assessment” of the privatisation of water services in developing countries and for its results “to be taken into account” in negotiations for updating the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has this week (Mon22/10) launched the results of a programme of studies into the health problems caused by indoor pollutants. Releasing the reports at the opening of the 13th annual conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, at Stresa, Italy, the centre said its data revealed “insights into potential causes of acute indoor symptoms such as allergies, asthma, mucous irritation, headaches and tiredness.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

INTERNATIONAL drinks companies that market flavoured malt beverages (FMB) have ceased overtly targeting underage American consumers, according to a recently released federal government report that praises the efforts of nine major producers for having improved the placement of their advertisements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MIDDLE East conference of the Office International des Épizooties, the world animal health organisation, has been staged to improve the region’s weak animal health controls. There was concern at the meeting, in Istanbul, Turkey, that Middle East countries do not have emergency plans to deal with outbreaks of transmissible animal diseases or detection systems for BSE.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) foreign ministers have explicitly linked progress in EU-Iran trade talks with Tehran meeting the International Atomic Energy Agency deadline of October 31 to demonstrate clearly that its nuclear power programme is not being used to develop weapons.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…