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In Europe, the number of seniors aged 70 and over will increase by 40% in the next 20 years, while those aged 80 and over will more than double. Health authorities and the medical community expect a corresponding increase in the number of people suffering costly and debilitating age-related chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, heart and lung diseases and dementia. The significant increase in the numbers of people suffering age-related chronic diseases is expected to have serious social and health-economic repercussions across Europe unless effective prevention strategies are put in place.
www.physorg.com | 2/3/12
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 The European Commission is proposing for the first time to regulate pharmaceutical pollutants in surface water, citing their potential health hazards to humans and aquatic life. More »
www.euractiv.com | 2/1/12
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GoG (Accra)-The European Commission, in collaboration with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), is holding a training workshop in Accra, Ghana from 31 January - 2 February on Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) and official control procedures for food of animal origin imported into the European Union (EU) market. The event is part of the European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Consumers' Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) programme. Around 20 people from Ghana and selected UEMOA countries are ex
allafrica.com | 2/1/12
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France vowed Wednesday to strengthen the regulation and monitoring of prosthetics and called for Europe-wide controls after a defective breast implant case sparked a global health...
feedproxy.google.com | 2/1/12
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A cold snap that killed 30 people in the Ukraine over the past five days has spread to much of eastern and central Europe with record lows in Bulgaria and heavy snow falls in Switzerland.
Emergency services in the Ukraine said most of the dead were homeless people who froze to death on the streets, four were found in their homes, and over 600 people sought medical help for frostbite and hypothermia.
Authorities opened 1,590 shelters to provide food and heat, and were planning to set up 150 more, as temperatures plunged to minus 28 degrees Celsius (-18 degrees Fahrenheit) in some regions.
Meanwhile, police in Poland reported five new deaths on Tuesday, bringing the overall toll for January to 27 as overnight temperatures dipped to minus 30 Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit).
In Vilnius, the capital of neighbouring Lithuania, one homeless man was found dead Tuesday, bringing the death toll there to eight since Saturday.
In the Czech Republic, a woman was found frozen to death in a garden shed in the capital Prague, police said.
Meanwhile, two died in Romania, raising the death toll to eight since Thursday, the health ministry...
www.timesofmalta.com | 1/31/12
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Not only has the economy remained stagnant since the early 1990s, but like many Western European countries, Elderly woman exercises with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark "Respect for the Aged Day" in Tokyo The government's Health and Welfare ministry just reported that Japan's population may shrink by one-third over the next ... (more)
www.topix.net | 1/30/12
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The European Commission has yesterday acted to ensure that Bulgarian voluntary health insurance undertakings are subject to EU insurance rules.
www.topix.net | 1/28/12
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Investors are turning increasingly bullish on U.S. markets as they declare its economy in better health than major rivals from Europe to Asia, according to the Bloomberg Global Poll.
www.businessweek.com | 1/26/12
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Today, La Quadrature du Net sent a letter to the Members of the Development committee of the European Parliament. All citizens should also call on the committee to carefully consider the many serious issues raised by ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement aimed at establishing extremist standards in copyright, patent and trademarks worldwide. La Quadrature has set up a wiki campaign page to help you get in touch with MEPs in the DEVE committee1.
To underline the crucial issues raised by ACTA, La Quadrature du Net has sent a letter to the members of the DEVE committee. La Quadrature stresses in particular how ACTA was — from the beginning of the negotiations — meant as an agreement to be imposed on developing countries. The letter also points to the human rights concerns regarding the impact of ACTA on access to medecines and free speech online. Finally, the letter insists on ACTA's lack of democratic legitimacy. Every citizen can contribute to defeat ACTA by contacting members of the EU Parliament (MEPs) and informing them of this illegtimate agreeement's dangers and the need to reject it.
www.laquadrature.net | 1/24/12
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Australia’s wine lovers are embracing European bottles as never before, exacerbating a decline in the local industry already suffering from plummeting exports.
www.businessweek.com | 1/23/12
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Paris, January 23rd, 2012 – After the huge online protests against the extremist SOPA and PIPA copyright bills discussed in the United States, the EU Parliament starts working on their global counterpart: ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. Citizens across Europe must push back against this illegitimate agreement bound to undermine free speech online, access to knowledge and innovation worldwide. Tomorrow, the EU Parliament “development” committee (DEVE) will hold its first debate on its draft opinion report1 on ACTA, presented by its rapporteur Jan Zahradil2, a conservative, euro-skeptic representative from the Czech Republic. This disastrous draft opinion report is deceptive and tries to justify extremist repressive measures to protect the outdated regime of copyright, patents and trademarks3. More worrying still, the draft report completely overlooks the widespread citicism against ACTA4, coming not only from NGOs defending access to medicines, such as OXFAM or Health Action International, but also from the EU's main trading partners. It is extremely surprising that the draft report does not question the need for ACTA and does not criticize the way in which it was negotiated. Does the committee consider normal for non-elected civil-servants close to industry lobbyists to negotiate out of any form of democratic scrutiny? Or for emerging and developing countries to be totally excluded from the process? The draft DEVE opinion report must be amended to reflect the crucial problems raised by ACTA. Even the study commissioned by the EU Parliament itself recognized that ACTA cannot be accepted as it stands5. “Pushed by the same extremist lobbies as PIPA and SOPA in the United States, ACTA is a global initiative aimed at protecting rent-seeking industries who dominate the world economy. The draft opinion report presented by Mr. Zahradil in DEVE committee overlooks all the crucial issues of ACTA: its lack of democratic legitimacy, the outdated vision of international trade it tries to promote, the impact it will have on access to medicines in developing countries, but also on online free speech and innovation worldwide. Starting with the development committee, Members of the EU Parliament must take on these various issues, and reject this infamous agreement once and for all. Citizens must take action to make sure that the EU Parliament gets the word.”, said Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for La Quadrature du Net. Learn more and act against ACTA
For how to act against ACTA, right now, please refer to our dedicated campaign page.
You can also see share this video on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
See ACTA's procedure file: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5924982.
www.laquadrature.net | 1/23/12
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft Office 365, the company's next-generation cloud productivity service, is the first and only major cloud-based platform to offer leading information privacy and security standards for customers operating in the European Union and United States. As part of its contractual commitment to customers, Microsoft will now sign the EU's model clauses, which will help customers certify compliance with the European Commission's stringent Data Protection Directive, and the U.S.-mandated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
dotnet.sys-con.com | 1/20/12
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Who says Romanians have a gift for enduring austerity? Just before the protests by the "Indignados" of Bucharest broke out, a Romanian columnist was shocked that the Financial Times would suggest that his countrymen were “familiar with austerity”, while others in Europe were expressing their admiration of Romanians’ endurance under the measures imposed by the IMF. The €13 billion loan signed back in 2009 has certainly saved the country’s growth, but at what cost?
Demonstrations have accompanied each of the austerity measures adopted by the Romanian government: a VAT hike, lower wages for civil servants, a 60-hour working week... Each time, the group affected has come out into the streets. But the discontent of recent days, which erupted following the resignation of the highly popular Under-secretary of State Raed Arafat in protest against the privatisation of the public health system, has touched all Romanians, and both right and left have flooded into the streets to take on the entire political class. They have, it seems, reached the limits of their proverbial ability to put up with the sacrifices. The government remains unmoved.
Having endured the speeches of politicians who repeat the “austerity-solidarity” mantra and blame their failures on Europe instead of trying to combine austerity and growth, the Romanians have said “enough!"
The protests in Romania are nothing more or less than a reflection of a discontent that could engulf the entire European Union. In truth, Europeans’ support for the sacrifices being asked of them, without any clear perspective being outlined or the situation explained, is fading fast. “For the European project to stay alive, something else is needed,” wrote Luca Niculescu in Revista 22 following the December 9 EU summit. Making peoples already hit hard by the crisis understand that stability requires austerity remains a tough sell. “There will be more demonstrations,” Niculescu predicts. It's blindingly obvious.
To remedy the situation, leaders must change tack. They must stop calling a summit at every “critical” moment. They should just explain, patiently, that the disappearance of the single currency would mean much more than a return to the peseta, the franc or the mark, and understand, as the Dutch philosopher Paul Scheffer has emphasised, that citizens’ support cannot be won without solid arguments. For the death of the euro would mean, quite simply, the end of the Union.
(Editorial)
www.presseurop.eu | 1/20/12
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The biggest chemical company in the world, BASF, is moving to the US because Europeans don’t want its genetically engineered potatoes. Just days ago, the company announced its decision to move its main laboratory for the development of genetically engineered (GE) crops to the US. BASF said the move was a business decision based on the acknowledgment of the market failure of BASF’s flagship crop, the antibiotic-resistant potato Amflora. After the enormous political and media coverage Amflora turned out to be a commercial flop! This is very good news for Europe. But why did BASF take this decision and what does it mean for the future of GE crops in Europe? In its press release BASF stated it had decided to “halt the development and commercialisation of all [genetically modified] products that are targeted solely for cultivation in the European markets”. The short explanation for this move was for BASF to take advantage of the practically non-existent regulatory system for GE crops in the US, which would result in increased profits. But there is much more to it than that. It has been increasingly difficult for BASF to disregard the public opposition to GE crops. According to the latest official figures 70 percent of European citizens find GE crops ‘unnatural’ and 61 percent of them oppose the development of these crops. And let’s not forget that Greenpeace twice gathered one million signatures against GE crops and that several EU member states have banned the only two GE crops authorised for cultivation in Europe. BASF itself acknowledged the power of the people when it said that the opposition is not only coming from Greenpeace activists opposing the commercialisation of GE crops but also from “the majority of consumers, farmers and politicians”. This contradicts the dozens of so-called ‘industry sources’ (often disguised as independent commentators) that often portray European farmers as desperately willing to plant GE seeds on their soil. Regardless of this BASF said that the move from Europe is a natural development and that it will concentrate its work on the Americas and “the growth markets in Asia”. The growth markets in Asia? What growth markets? Could BASF be referring to the ground-breaking Indian decision to put a moratorium on the approval of the Bt Brinjal (eggplant) in 2010? Or the decision of the government of Thailand to keep their rice GE-free? Or could BASF even be referring to the Chinese government’s declaration to suspend until further notice any commercialisation of GE-rice?! Clearly not. But the masterpiece of BASF’s media spin in their press release must be their distortion of terminology. They equate ‘biotechnology’ and ‘genetic engineering’. This is wrong. No-one in Europe, and certainly not Greenpeace, is against biotechnology. If we were we would be against producing beer. And let me say here Greenpeace is not against producing beer, nor any of the other biotechnologies that improve our lives. Greenpeace has only ever expressed very serious scientific concerns and flagged the many environmental, economic and political problems with GE crops. Greenpeace is not against ‘biotechnology’, we are against bad biotechnology like GE crops. There are several other plant biotechnologies available. Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) for instance, which is also known as Smart Breeding which is more effective, cheaper and less risky than GE. Greenpeace supports Smart Breeding not only because it doesn’t pose the health and environmental risks of GE crops, but also because it is cheaper which makes it easier for public institutions to use it. So where does all this leave us? BASF’s decision sends a strong signal once and hopefully for all that there is no market for GE crops in Europe. What we want to see from now on is a substantial shift in the research and development agenda of Europe. Politicians, research institutions and private foundations must acknowledge the market failure of GE crops and start investing massively in solutions-based research, firstly in agro-ecology and secondly in advanced plant breeding using modern biotechnologies like Smart Breeding. The citizens want a GE-free Europe, the farmers want it, politicians want it and Greenpeace definitely wants it. Sorry BASF, no bad potatoes here! Marco Contiero, EU Policy Director - Sustainable Agriculture & Genetic Engineering, Greenpeace European Unit & Lasse Bruun, Senior Campaigner - Sustainable Agriculture & Genetic Engineering, Greenpeace International
feedproxy.google.com | 1/20/12
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France has the second-highest birth rate in the European Union after Ireland.
Faced with burgeoning health care costs, the government now want young mothers to leave the clinic sooner after giving birth, offering home care instead.
AFPTV reports
www.timesofmalta.com | 1/17/12
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Europe's debt crisis has brought down governments, roiled markets and triggered austerity measures affecting millions.
www.topix.net | 1/17/12
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Europe's debt crisis has brought down governments, roiled markets and triggered austerity measures affecting millions.
www.topix.net | 1/17/12
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(AP) -- The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.
www.physorg.com | 1/16/12
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The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.
www.ctv.ca | 1/16/12
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AP - The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.
us.rd.yahoo.com | 1/16/12
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EU Commissioner John Dalli today gave an overview of the activities related to his portfolio throughout 2011. His presentation touched on all aspects of EU Health and Consumer Policy.
In spite of the challenges Europe has gone through, work continued in earnest in this area and a number of major results were achieved, he told a press conference.
He said that in the health sector, the European Commission focused on wellness rather than disease.
Keeping people well and out of hospital beds was key to health sustainability in the future. Thus, policies that pushed people towards a lifestyle which kept them in good health needed to be developed and promoted.
In consumer policy, empowerment was emphasised over protection. Consumers, Mr Dalli said, ought to be proactive, especially as the single market develops further, but they need to have the proper leverage to be a full partner in the market. This could come about through information and right of redress.
Mr Dalli said this year will be a very busy one, with a number of proposals to be tabled in the coming months. These include an Animal Welfare Strategy, which will be ...
www.timesofmalta.com | 1/16/12
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Standard & Poor's said its downgrades reflect its belief that the eurozone hasn't done enough to mitigate its debt crisis. The downgrades could have deep implications for the health of the monetary union.
www.npr.org | 1/13/12
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Standard & Poor's said its downgrades reflect its belief that the eurozone hasn't done enough to mitigate its debt crisis. The downgrades could have deep implications for the health of the monetary union.
www.npr.org | 1/13/12
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Standard & Poor's said its downgrades reflect its belief that the eurozone hasn't done enough to mitigate its debt crisis. The downgrades could have deep implications for the health of the monetary union.
www.npr.org | 1/13/12
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The health secretary ordered a review into the safety and quality of private clinics offering the cosmetic surgery following a health scare over breast implants made by a now defunct French company.
www.nytimes.com | 1/12/12
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European Central Bank as banks continue to seek a safe home for their cash amid continued anxiety about the health of the eurozone financial system.Much of the focus remains on Italian bank ...
story.venezuelastar.com | 1/9/12
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us.rd.yahoo.com | 1/6/12
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Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare.
www.physorg.com | 1/6/12
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Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health...
feedproxy.google.com | 1/6/12
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France’s health minister said the European Union should strengthen its rules on authorizing medical devices amid a breast implant scandal involving a French company.
www.nytimes.com | 1/6/12
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LONDON - European stocks and the euro dipped Thursday amid fresh concerns that Europe will struggle to contain its debt crisis in the wake of question mark over the health of banks in the 17-nation bl
story.venezuelastar.com | 1/5/12
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LONDON - European stocks and the euro dipped Thursday amid fresh concerns that Europe will struggle to contain its debt crisis in the wake of question mark over the health of banks in the 17-nation bl
story.venezuelastar.com | 1/5/12
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Observer (Kampala)-Geneva- Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organisation director general, reiterated his desire for a free and fair trading platform as part of the solution to restoring the health of the world economy, which is threatened by the financial troubles in the European Union.
allafrica.com | 1/3/12
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Jobs. Europe. Housing. Health care. The writers of the Economic View column examine these and other big issues of the new year, and possible ways to solve them.
www.nytimes.com | 12/31/11
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The Indian rupee fell early on Thursday in anticipation of outflows as worries about Europe's economic health sent the euro tumbling and Asian equities weakened.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | 12/29/11
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CIGARETTE packets in Spain may soon all be one colour, with no brand name, just a disturbing picture and health warning.
The European Commission is considering making it the law for...
feedproxy.google.com | 12/28/11
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Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal 
Ward's Auto
reports the European Commission is pushing new measures that could burden automakers with stiff noise regulations
for cars, buses and trucks. Under the proposed legislation, automakers would need to curb vehicle noise levels by two decibels two years after the legislation's wording is agreed upon by EC member countries. Another two decibel reduction would occur three years after the first installment. Trucks, meanwhile, would be forced to reduce noise by one decibel in the first wave of reductions and two decibels in the second wave. Officials behind the proposed rules say the change will slash road noise by 25 percent and greatly improve the health and quality of life of European citizens.Automakers are busily lobbying for amendments to the proposal, saying they have issues with the timing, levels and legal categories contained within the noise-control measures. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association says that while the first step could be implemented immediately, the second step could take as many as six years to accomplish. Head over to Ward's to read the full report. European automakers irked over proposed noise standards originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
www.autoblog.com | 12/27/11
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Reuters - As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.
us.rd.yahoo.com | 12/27/11
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MADRID (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock-market futures pointed to a higher open for Wall Street, bolstered by a rebound for European markets and as investors awaited further signs of health in the ...
story.venezuelastar.com | 12/22/11
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How Greek crisis is strangling citizens' health
www.bbc.co.uk | 12/20/11
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 The European Commission next year plans to challenge poor health literacy levels in Europe with a new internet-based tool called Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface. More »
www.euractiv.com | 12/16/11
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The Estonian Head of State, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, went on a working visit to Portugal to chair the consecutive session of the European Commission's e-health work group today and to meet the President of Portugal.
www.topix.net | 12/15/11
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gawker.com | 12/14/11
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During the 4th European Public Health Conference, EPHA joined forces with the Open Society Institute/Roma Health Project and spoke in a moderated poster session on "Empowering vulnerable groups to act on the social determinants of health inequalities" with a focus on advocacy, capacity building and the civil society.
www.topix.net | 12/13/11
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The EU and the WHO have to complement each other instead of rivalry in shaping European health policy, writes Mihály Kökény, Hungary's former Minister of Health and former chairman of the WHO executive board. More »
www.euractiv.com | 12/12/11
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Young people in Stockholm, Sweden are among the worst in Europe at practicing safe sex but Stockholm County Aids Prevention Program and advertising agency smartphone app download .
www.topix.net | 12/11/11
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By Theresa Wolfwood It seems like a great idea – to buy a counter top device that converts tap water into sparkling fizzy water. Add a line of 100 flavours of sweet syrups; in the words of the sales clerk I spoke to, 'it’s a fun thing.' SodaStream (sometimes marketed as Soda Club) is sold around the world including in my city, often by big chain stores like Costco, Kmart and Amazon (USA); Sears, The Bay, and Home Outfitters (Canada); Tesco, Asda and Argos (UK); Migros (a large coop network in Switzerland); Carrefour (France & other countries); Edeka, Adler, and Karstadt, (in Germany where it is distributed by Brita, the international water filter company. Brita products are sold in Israel by SodaStream.) The world’s largest producer of home carbonation systems, sold in 41 countries, SodaStream claims to be environmentally friendly because it uses its own reusable bottles, saving the production and transport of millions of disposable plastic containers and saving money and time for consumers .As some of the syrups use natural products, while others use sugar and artificial sweeteners, it is promoted also as “healthy” in natural food, eco-friendly, green and biological shops. It sounds too good to be true – and so it is. These products are labelled “Made in Israel”, the company claims to have factories elsewhere including China. An examination of the corporate annual report reveals that only some parts are made in China. (SodaStream International Ltd.; Annual report,” 30 June 2011). SodaStream is owned by Soda-Club, an Israeli company founded in 1991 by Peter Wiseburgh and publicly traded on NASDAQ as SodaStream International under the symbol SODA with 2009 revenues of USA$ 142,842,000. However, the products are not made in Israel at all. SodaStream is manufactured in Mishor Adumin, (also known as Mishor Edomin) one of 171 illegal settlements within Palestine. Mishor Adumin is about 20 kilometres east of Jerusalem in a strategic area of illegal settlements designed to cut off Palestinians’ right of free movement between the northern and southern areas of the West Bank. Syrups are produced in another settlement, Ashkelon. (The device uses disposable carbon dioxide cartridges which are made in Germany and other countries.) “These products are fraudulently labelled as “Made in Israel”, but are in fact produced in illegal settlements under the conditions of the military occupation in the West Bank, outside the internationally-recognized borders of Israel.” http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011 Environmentally-friendly? Think of the Palestinian residents and farmers of Mishor Adumin whose homes, fields, orchards and forests were destroyed to create this industrial settlement and the neighbouring residential settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim which today ranks third in population of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Over 1.5 million trees have been destroyed in Palestine by the occupiers as they insinuate their homes and factories into Palestinian land. More than 300,000 Palestinians are homeless as result of home demolitions in Palestine. The environmental destruction continues. When I was in Palestine I witnessed fields, orchards and homes being bulldozed and levelled, preparing for the continuation of the wall and the construction of an Israeli-only super highway linking all the settlements around Jerusalem, including Ma’aleh Adumim and Mishor Adumin. So how can SodaStream be green? There is nothing clean about the production of this ‘fun’ product, either. Many of the workers in SodaStream factory are Palestinians, desperate for any kind of job. Independent research has revealed that workers are poorly paid, sometimes below the minimum wage, are threatened with job loss (in any Israeli-owned facility) if they complain about bad working condition, job insecurity or low wages. They are the occupied subjects of military rule, lacking legal rights, including the right to organize. (For more details, see here) SodaStream has also been accused of fraud. The European Union grants certain tax benefits to Israeli goods imported into Europe, but that does not include goods produced in occupied territories. In 2010 the European Court of Justice ruled that its products manufactured in Israeli-occupied territories were not subject to the preferential import duty treatment as goods manufactured within Israel. In Germany shipments of these products have been stopped by customs because they are not labelled truthfully. Resolutions #242 & #338 of the UN Security Council include statements that prohibit permanent settlement of occupied lands for domestic or commercial purposes; Israel continues to rob Palestine of land, resources and access. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 also states that, “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, founded by 180 civil organizations in Palestine, has spread around the world. Solidarity groups everywhere are chalking up successes in consumer products and institutional investments, including national pension plans. (See: BDS: BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. 2011. Haymarket Books, USA by Omar Barghouti) Meanwhile SodaStream claims with much publicity to have sold one million of its devices in socially-responsible Sweden. But in July, 2011 the Coop (Cooperative Stores Network) announced it would stop selling SodaStream products because they are made in occupied territory and their sale was in conflict with Coop’s own ethical standard as well as Global Compact, the UN ethical guidelines for businesses. In Belgium as well as other European countries BDS campaigners actively protest against the sale of SodaStream. USA and Canada both have a Free Trade Agreement with Israel. That means, as in the European Union, certain taxes are not levied on partners. By allowing SodaStream to sell its fraudulently labelled “Made in Israel” products, illegally produced under military occupation, as free trade products, the company receives financial concessions under Free Trade agreements. Boycotts are powerful tools for our international campaigns for human rights. Ahava Cosmetic Products are also made in an illegal settlement, Mitzpe Shalem, near the Dead Sea; they are no longer sold in major outlets in Canada and USA after boycott actions. As law respecting citizens we have a responsibility to stop the illegal sale of another luxury product with dubious health or environmental benefits, made under conditions that violate the human rights of workers and all Palestinians. Boycott SodaStream! - Theresa Wolfwood is a writer and activist in Victoria, BC, Canada. She visited Palestine in 2010 and Belgium in 2011. She contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Visit: www.bbcf.ca.
palestinechronicle.com | 12/10/11
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Consumer health concern over exposure to mineral oils from paper and board packaging has triggered a voluntary commitment from European industry bodies to phase out their use over the next two years.
www.topix.net | 12/10/11
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Draghi discouraged expectations the bank would massively step up buying of government bonds after a crucial Brussels summit on Friday. His comments, coupled with a stark warning about the health of ...
story.venezuelastar.com | 12/8/11
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AP - European health authorities issued widely different recommendations Friday in dealing with potentially faulty French-made breast implants, with Germany and the Czech Republic following France in recommending their removal, while Britain insisted there isn't enough evidence to suggest they should be taken out in all cases.afromix.org | afromix.info | stars-news.info | mediaport.net | webremix.info