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AIRBAGS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A JAPANESE company has developed an integrated manufacturing system for recovering odd-end fabrics created by shearing during the production of automobile air bags, turning these wastes into a high-performance nylon plastic. Toyobo Co., says that the reprocessed waste can be used in the manufacture of automobile engines and air bag cavity coverings, as well as in bicycle wheels and shopping carts.…
MUTUAL RECOGNITION
BY ALAN OSBORN
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.
The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…
MUTUAL RECOGNITION
KEITH NUTHALL
FROM the beginning of next year exporters of medicinal products will find it easier to sell in Japan following completion of a Mutual Recognition Agreement between that country and the EU.
The deal includes a Good Manufacturing Practice agreement under which both sides will agree to honour each other’s testing, certification and approval of products.…
OECD REPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…
WRISTWATCH ALARM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCENE is familiar; armed robbers hold up a bank and a teller moves to dive beneath a desk to hit the panic button, but is told to freeze or be shot. Companies with exposed personnel such as these might consider buying a new wristband alarm developed by Japanese company Takenaka Engineering Co.,…
WRISTWATCH ALARM
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCENE is familiar; armed robbers hold up a bank and a teller moves to dive beneath a desk to hit the panic button, but is told to freeze or be shot. Companies with exposed personnel such as these might consider buying a new wristband alarm developed by Japanese company Takenaka Engineering Co.,…
WHO ADVERTISING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has tried to undermine support for Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and British American Tobacco’s “International Tobacco Product Marketing Standards” campaign, ahead of the scheduled talks at its Geneva headquarters to negotiate global rules for tobacco control.…
KYOTO LATEST
BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…
KYOTO LATEST
BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…
SPORTS SMOKING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has announced that it has struck an agreement with international sports governing bodies to launch an anti-tobacco campaign; it would aim at persuading sports participants and spectators to abandon smoking, (including in stadiums, and block tobacco advertising, promotion and marketing.…