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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for human flu vaccines to be given to all poultry slaughterhouse workers, following the reemergence of bird flu in three Asian countries: Vietnam, China and Thailand. The FAO said research showed the virus was more widespread than previously thought and was unlikely to be “eradicated soon”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EGYPTIAN fish farms are being supplied with Cairo wastewater cleansed by innovative biotechnology. In a scheme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Egyptian government is pumping 25,000 cubic metres of water from a drain serving the capital into huge ponds, where sediments settle.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE USA’S Environmental Protection Agency has warned against eating more than half a serving a month of Atlantic salmon and trout raised in federal hatcheries in the north-east United States because of high levels of dioxins and PCB’s.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIV and AIDS are so-ravaging southern Africa that local life expectancy rates are tumbling to where 30-year-olds are considered old men. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reported cataclysmic falls in life expectancy in Zambia, where 32.7% HIV infection rates for adults aged 15-49 has cut average mortality ages from 47.4 in 1990 to 32.7 in 2002.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Mongolia have negotiated a trade and investment framework agreement, creating a bilateral council charged with boosting the countries’ trade in textile and other goods. Mongolian textiles and clothing dominate its annual US$183.4 million exports to America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD map on regulatory cooperation agreed by the European Union (EU) and the United States includes a deal to work together on cosmetics industry rules, according to documents released by Washington. The agreement sanctions cooperation between the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for enterprise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SECURING agreement in principle on the proposed European Union (EU) regulation on restricting the use of certain fluorinated greenhouse gases is a key priority of the new Dutch presidency of the EU. Official documents drawn up by the EU Council of Ministers committee of permanent officials (Coreper) show the Netherlands wants a deal on this legislation at October 14’s environment council.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BOOMING west African oil state Equatorial Guinea is pumping US$3.7 million into a four-year air traffic control and airport improvement project, with the help of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) advisors. The plan will strengthen ATC, restructure the country’s civil aviation authority and improve documentation handling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNIFORM global rules on the market approval of internal combustion engines in non-road mobile machinery have been approved regarding the measurement of the net power. The standard – agreed by the United Nations’ World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations – is expected to encourage manufacturers to use net rather than gross power as a yardstick.…

Keith Nuthall
NEW global technical standards have been agreed advising manufacturers how to design vehicles so that textiles used in interior construction are less prone to catch fire. They were agreed by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).…