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Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...to the country's industrial sector. By 2006, its factories produced exports worth 136 billion dollars, the highest of any Chinese city for the 14th straight year, according to official figures. Many cities across China are experiencing similar traffic problems to Shenzhen. In Beijing, officials announced...

China to "salvage" Reputation on Food, Drug Safety

... procedures, greater inspections of pharmaceutical factories and bigger fines for companies that flout the law, the paper said. "In a renewed effort to ensure drug safety and salvage its credibility, China's drug watchdog announced revised methods... as part of the national crusade on restoring public confid...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...ered towns around Taihu to shut down all polluting factories and meet new water emission standards by the end of June 2008....

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...or yellow. The toys were manufactured in Chinese factories not restricted by a 1978 American ban on lead paint domestically. The recall comes amid a series of health outrage regarding imports from china in the form of food, drugs and other products which were found to contaminated. Thousands of animals in ...

West Told to Stop Blaming China for Pollution

...ypocrisy," he added. Yakcop noted that polluting factories in China are mostly owned by US and European multinational corporations benefiting from China's cheap labour resources. Participants at the two-day conference were focusing on a recent study that shows China produced the highest level of carbon dio...

Taj Mahal is Enveloped by Pollution and a Foul Smell

...the current mess. In Agra, homes, businesses and factories are left without electricity for hours every day, ...r 40,000, for their power needs. Glass and other factories in neighbouring towns are being persuaded to use gas instead of coke in their furnaces. However, th...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

...of the Be-Tabs manufacturing facility to bring its factories in line with new standards. With the re-vamp of the Be-Tabs facilities, the company expects to lead the way for generics manufacturing in South Africa.The acquisition of Be-Tabs substantially strengthens the basket of products that Ranbaxy brings to ...

Chinas Blue Ear Virus-no Hogwash

...cine was developed; and the ministry authorized 12 factories to produce the vaccine. Government figures from the Ministry of Agriculture put at 18,597, the number of pigs killed by the disease in the first five months of 2007, with outbreaks found in 22 provinces, or about two-thirds of the country's provinc...

Hong Kong Choked by Growing Pollution Problem

...arming industry. From across the border in China, factories belch smoke into the fetid air over Deep Bay, one of Hong Kong's most polluted stretches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chinese, pollution is one of the biggest problems facing the former British colony as it bears t...

Study Finds Fat Type That can Protect Against Weight Gain and Diabetes

...ins small lipid droplets tucked behind tiny energy factories called mitochondria. These cells are most prevalent in the necks of infants and between the shoulder blades in mice to help their bodies generate heat, but tend to mostly disappear by adulthood. A 2005 Joslin study by Dr. Kahn and his colleagues disc...

Act Now To Cleanse Highly Polluted River Hindon, Says Study

...ying a heavy load of pesticides released both from factories as well as agricultural run off from the fields, says the report released by Janhit Foundation. The foundation is an independent, not-for-profit NGO actively engaged in the promotion of human welfare through environmental protection. The report's au...

Do Computer Factories Enhance Cancer Risk?

...s of an exhaustive database on mortality, computer factories may be called a hotbed for different types of cancers//. By means of a study Richard W. Clapp, M.P.H., D.Sc. of Boston University has explained that cancers of the brain, kidney and breast were the main reasons for mortality amongst IBM employees a...

500 People Affected by Gas Leak Near Bhopal

...hunt for the source of gas leakage but most of the factories are closed today being Sunday. A team of doctors and environment experts from the State Pollution Board has also been rushed to the spot and are taking care of the situation." Meanwhile, in a late night development, the state government Sunday anno...

'Bottled' Contamination And a Brewing Battle

... of industrialization and economic growth, several factories have mushroomed in the scenic backdrops of rural I... wastes, which contaminate the ground water, these factories make use of impure water, lack the planning required for site-selection, are devoid of appropriate i...

Computational Model Reveals Working of AZT in Body

...th DNA replication in the mitochondria, the energy factories of our cells, and can lead to potentially fatal side effects in patients undergoing HAART treatment. Samuels, assistant professor at VBI, commented: "HAART is one of the biggest success stories in modern medicine. The goal of our work is to help im...

Cadbury Blamed for Salmonella Outbreak

...or using "out of date" tests for salmonella at its factories as well as not alerting authorities to the contamination for five months. According to the health watchdog up to 37 of the 56 cases of salmonella montevideo that were reported between March and July were identical to the bacteria found in Cadbury's...

Autoimmune disorders studied in detail by U-M researchers.

... targets an enzyme inside mitochondria, the energy factories of cells. The specific enzyme, F1F0-ATPase, is responsible for producing most of the cell’s ATP. That’s a critical role because ATP, often referred to as the cell’s energy currency, is the molecule that captures chemical energy from food and transfer...

Genes Responsible For Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified

... courtesy their work at paper pulp mills and steel factories in Sweden. The scientists tested the men and conducted a genetic analysis on those who were very sensitive to the noise. "Significant differences between the susceptible and resistant workers were found in the sequence of three genes KCNE1, KCNQ1 an...

Import of Paan from India and Indonesia is on rise in Pakistan

...re is also spurious production in several chemical factories in the city. "So far, no action has been taken against them because these manufacturers represent business interests and are powerful enough to resist such moves," the newspaper said. A sample study by Karachi University's department of microbiol...

Cadbury Dismisses Rumors of Withdrawal of More Products

... and used as the base for products made at Cadbury factories near Birmingham and Bath. Recent estimates that Cadbury could face a cost of 25 mln stg from the salmonella scare are about five times more than its original estimate. However as a Cadbury spokesman insisted, it is 'far to early to say' what the ...

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