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Members please note that the Southern Centre AGM and CPD seminar will now take place on Monday 22 September. The venue, timings and seminar programme remain the same. Novotel, 181 Pitt Street, Glasgow from 11.45am to 2.00pm. Full details from Martin MacNiven. Tel: 01236 812772.
MacnivenM@northlan.gov.uk.

The Council of REHIS has recognised the distinguished contribution to the field of Environmental Health made by Mike Halls by awarding him an Honorary Membership when it met on Saturday 6 September. Mike is a former President of REHIS and the IFEH and recently announced his decision to stand down from the Council at the AGM on 20 November. Congratulations Mike. Congratulations also go to Robert Howe, Keith McNamara and Tom Bell who were awarded Fellowships for their outstanding and distinctive service to the Institute. Presentations will be made at the Annual Awards Ceremony on 19 November.

A Definitive Review of the Policies and Regulations driving land remediation in Scotland.
Glasgow Science Centre
24 September 2008
The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC), the leading association for the land remediation sector, is utilising its unrivalled expertise and influence to host the definitive conference and exhibition
for all those involved in land remediation and development.

New venue and Keynote Address by Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Environment.

Environmental Protection UK – Scottish Division (formerly NSCA Scotland) are please to host the above event on Tuesday 23 September 2008 in Glasgow.

They are happy to announce that Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Environment from the Scottish Parliament, will attend and give a Keynote Address.

Due to the demand for spaces at this event, they have moved the venue for this Conference to The Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

For details on the event, please contact
Clare Carruthers
Admin/Public Relations Manager
Environmental Protection UK (formerly NSCA Scotland)
c/o Glasgow City Council, Land & Environmental Services, 231 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RX

Tel: 0141 287 6530

Email: clare.carruthers@environmental-protection.org.uk

Bookings can be made online at EPUK

Xavier Bonnefoy, Helge Kampen and Kevin Sweeney
ISBN 978 92 890 7188 8
This excellent handbook consisting of almost 600 pages of text, tables and colour illustrations, has just been published by WHO Europe.
The WHO invited international experts in various fields – pests, pest-related diseases and pest management – to provide evidence on which to base urban environmental health policies. These experts identified the public health risk posed by various pests and appropriate measures to prevent and control them. This handbook presents their conclusions and formulates policy options for all levels of decision-making to manage pests and pest-related diseases in the future.
For further information please visit:
Public health significance of urban pests

The seminar will be held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 22 October.Subjects to be covered during the day will include updates on food borne disease, food allergies and intolerances, E.coli O157, Noroviruses and food handlers,HACCP and food safety training. Booking forms will be sent to REHIS Approved Training Centres in the near future. For further information please contact the REHIS office.

This is the first time that the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland has exhibited at the World
Congress on Environmental Health and we are delighted to have a presence at this most important environmental health event at such a prestigious venue.I take this opportunity to thank the congress team at the AIEH and commend them for all their endeavours over the past months.
Robert Howe – President, REHIS
See attachment for more information.

The Institute is pleased to announce that Bernard Forteath a REHIS Past President was inaugurated as President of the International Federation of Environmental Health at the Gala Congress Dinner held in Brisbane.
See attached document for more information.

Food hygiene training courses for local businesses have been running for almost ten years at South Lanarkshire Council.This month saw the 5000th person complete their training at the REHIS Approved Training Centre based in Hamilton.
At an award ceremony on the 2 June Councillor Gerry Convery, Chair of Community Resources, South Lanarkshire Council marked the milestone of the 5000th participant to receive their REHIS Certificate in Food Hygiene by presenting Caroline Duris from Alexander Young Bakers, Hamilton with her certificate.
The photograph shows,from left to right,Robert Howe,Head of Environmental Health and Strategic Services,South Lanarkshire Council and President of REHIS,Alex Young from Alexander Young Bakers,Tom Bell,REHIS Chief Executive and Caroline Duris.

Community Food and Health Scotland (CFHS) is a national organisation that supports local communities to tackle inequalities in food and health. CFHS is keen to support organisations in the homeless sector to strengthen their capacity/ability to deliver food and health promoting activity by helping to increase the number of accredited REHIS Elementary Food and Health course tutors in the homeless sector. If you work with homeless people or people at risk of homelessness and would like to find out more about this initiative, please check out the information sheet attached and send for an application form from Community Food and Health Scotland.
The REHIS Elementary Food and Health course was first launched in January 2006. It was developed in conjunction with NHS Health Scotland, the then Scottish Executive, the Food Standards Agency Scotland, CFHS (known at that time as the Scottish Community Diet Project), and the healthyliving award.

The Summer 2008 edition of Environmental Health Scotland, the REHIS Journal, can be accessed on the members area.
Members will receive their copies of the Journal in the next 7 to 10 days.

The conference held in Edinburgh earlier this month proved to be a great success. Highlights included
• a stirring Presidential Address by Robert Howe followed by a range of excellent presentations made by eminent speakers
• a small but select exhibition by partner organisations
• a very enjoyable conference dinner with representatives of our many partner organisations attending as guests
•the presence throughout conference of representatives of partner organisations, Members of the Scottish Parliament, local authority councillors, Scottish Government officials, Honorary Vice-Presidents (Ann Marie Part, Stewart Maxwell MSP, Robin Harper MSP and Alan Johnson) and Young Samanyika of the EHOA Malawi and, of course, many members of the Institute.
Planning for 2009 conference is already underway!

The photo shows Young Samanyika (EHOA Malawi), Ann Marie Part (Honorary Vice-President) and Niamh McGrath (EHOA Ireland) with Tom Bell the REHIS Chief Executive outside the Scottish Parliament on the last day of conference.