Chemical Industry Applauds New Milestone on Journey to Better Regulation 20/07/2005
The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is delighted to note todays launch of the Cabinet Offices public consultation stage for the Better Regulation Bill. The Bill is designed to speed up the better regulation agenda by enabling the Gove...
Chemical Sector Beats its 2004 Climate Change Agreement Target 20/07/2005
The UK Chemical Industries Association (CIA) announced today that the chemical sector has achieved and exceeded its 2004 Climate Change Agreement (CCA) target....
$1 million Nobel of the East awarded to Sir Michael Berridge, Emeritus Fellow at the Babraham Institute 20/07/2005
Professor Sir Michael Berridge, FRS, Emeritus Fellow at the Babraham Institute, has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize, for his pioneering work in the field of cell signalling. His discovery of the key role that calcium plays in regula...
Technologies launch new era in airport safety 20/07/2005
Human error, bad weather and ineffective ground radar can all have devastating consequences for airport safety, possibly leading to a huge number of fatalities. New complementary airport safety systems currently under development promise to...
Improving access to historical documents 20/07/2005
Letters written by DH Lawrence and 800-year-old records from the Duke of Newcastle's estate are among documents now accessible online thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)....
Strong impact of wintering waterbirds on zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) populations at Lake Constance, Germany 20/07/2005
The numbers of overwintering waterbirds at Lake Constance, have increased fourfold since the early 1960s, as shown by a study published in Freshwater Biology. The main avian population changes concerned the mussel-eating tufted duck, pochar...
New analysis services for the wine-producing sector 20/07/2005
The AZTI-Tecnalia laboratories have launched new methodologies for analysing parameters that, up to now, have not usually been analysed for wines - ocratoxine A and histamine. The design of these new analysis methodologies arose from the ne...
EU chemicals law REACH inspires US bill 19/07/2005
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg has introduced a bill to regulate chemicals in the US after a government report criticised current legislation for failing to protect Americans from toxic substances....
Commission clarifies services of general interest 19/07/2005
Payments of up to 30 million euro are not to be considered state aid when they go to private companies taking over services of general interest. They need not be cleared by the Commission, according to new competition guidelines....
UK presidency to tackle health inequalities 19/07/2005
The UK presidency says it has two clear health policy priorities: reducing health inequalities and promoting patient safety....
