Greenpeace today welcomed the report on sustainable waste management by the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The report condemns the Government's policy on waste incineration and raises real doubts about the safety and regulation of the technology.
The report itself says that "incineration will never play a major role in truly sustainable waste management" and that "the health effects, which result from an incinerator's emissions, are not yet fully known".
The safety and regulation of GM food has again been questioned. According to a new Canadian report (prepared by highly regarded experts for the Royal Society of Canada) GM food could pose:
"serious risks to human health, of extensive, irremediable disruption for the natural ecosystems or of serious dimunition of biodiversity"
News about a "Golden Rice" first appeared in August 1999, when scientists announced they had succeeded in genetically engineering a rice variety to contain Beta-Carotene (or pro-Vitamin A), a compound that our body can convert into Vitamin A.
The scientists said they hope that this genetically engineered (GE) rice would be an important tool to fight Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD), a malnutrition problem which affects millions of people in poor countries, especially children and pregnant women...
There is no safe dose of radiation. Exposure to radiation at any level can increase the risk of developing radiation-linked diseases like cancer. The way to minimise the risk is to minimise exposure to radiation as far as possible.
Babies and toddlers should not swallow hazardous chemicals. But they do. Every time they play with a soft PVC toy.
Chemicals called phthalates (pronounced tha-lates) have been banned from use in all babies toys in 7 European countries, but soft PVC toys containing phthalates remain on sale throughout the UK.
Soft PVC toys contain phthalates to make them soft. (You can often smell these chemicals, or the vanilla essence used to disguise the smell, when you open the packaging).
Greenpeace today welcomed the report on sustainable waste management by the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment, Transport and the Regions. The report condemns the Government's policy on waste incineration and raises real doubts about the safety and regulation of the technology.
