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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THAT poor environmental standards harm people’s health is the raison d’etre of environmental health officers committed to improving living conditions across the board. And that the world’s environment is becoming ever dirtier and polluted is a universal assumption: but by how much?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health officers will be well acquainted with international efforts to develop hydrogen cars, but local authorities in Denmark wants to go further: they are planning to launch Europe’s first hydrogen-powered train. Three towns in western Jutland – Vemb, Lemvig and Thyborøn – have pledged funding to run a hydrogen train along the 59-kilometre railway that connects them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has sent a critical diplomatic note to the United States about its ban on air passengers carrying cigarette lighters onboard US planes. The EU Council of Ministers voted to tell the US state department of its concerns about “the effectiveness of such a provision, given that current technology does not allow the effective detection of the lighters”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A FORMER American government packing plant veterinarian says the US government is hiding cases of BSE in the United States. During a speech in Edmonton, Canada, Dr Lester Friedlander stated ex-colleagues with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have told him of cases the department has chosen not to announce.…

BY LIZ HALL
A PROFUSION of family-run businesses, corrupt and under-resourced authorities and low wages has traditionally meant much commercial crime goes undetected in Latin America. But the tide is turning, with more and more companies unwilling to turn a blind eye to fraud, bribery and counterfeit goods production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU Council of Ministers has ordered imports of corn gluten and brewers grain livestock feed from the United States of America to be certified as free of the genetically modified maize GMO Bt10, following unauthorised imports of this ingredient into the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending up to Euro 20 million to help glass bottle manufacturer Stirom SA Romania, modernise a furnace and reform its distribution systems. In the latest of a string of investments by the bank improving the country’s packaging sector, Yioula SA, Greece, -owned Stirom may also use the money to buy additional capacity, said the EBRD.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched an e-tourism initiative website, aimed at helping developing countries market their tourist industries and attractions. The project includes the development of online booking systems, enabling tourists to reserve local accommodation and transport services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DELOITTE Touche Tohmatsu is donating 14,000 hours of pro bono advisory services to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to check tsunami reconstruction funds are used efficiently and transparently.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE CANADIAN government is to impose 15% additional duties on American oyster imports, because of Washington’s failure to follow a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that it should scrap its Byrd Amendment law on protective tariffs. This grants US companies additional compensation for successfully pushing their federal government into erecting anti-dumping or countervailing duties on imports deemed subsidised or cut-priced.…