The EU’s Seventh Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (FP7) began in 2007 as the successor to the FP6 program, the EU’s main system for funding research. Boasting a much larger budget (€50 billion [$66 billion = €0.75 = $1]) than its predecessor (€17.50 billion [$23.10 billion]) and running until 2013, the FP7’s goals […]
Hygiene testing is an important and regulated part of the hygiene regimen in food and pharmaceutical processing facilities. A typical application is to determine whether a cleaned surface meets the relevant standard for cleanliness with respect to organic material. Several closely related methods are used for hygiene testing. The most common is adenosine triphosphate (ATP) […]
Company Announcements AMS and Westco Scientific Instruments acquired Unity Scientific, an NIR solutions provider, in fall 2008. Doug Evans remains president of Unity Scientific. Guided Wave acquired Aspectris, a supplier of encoded photometric IR and NIR systems to OEM customers and for selected target applications, in fall 2008. A2 Technologies licensed Boeing’s patents for the […]
Canadian science and technology (S&T) spending for biotechnology increased 4.6% in 2008 to $921 million to account for 9% of federal S&T expenditures. Twenty-nine percent of federal S&T spending for biotech went to in-house activities and 71% went to extramural performers. The higher education sector received 80% of extramural funding. Among S&T activities, R&D received […]
Petrochemical projects in the Middle East are facing delays. In many cases, financing is in doubt. State-sponsored projects are an exception, although the time line of some projects has been extended. However, the delay benefits producers as construction costs continue to fall. Middle Eastern petrochemical firms also are expected to remain active in mergers and […]
Company Announcements Metrohm opened a regional support center in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in 2008. Life Technologies stated in a January SEC filing that Invitrogen used a purchase price of $22.50 per share (the price per share two days before the merger) to value its acquisition of Applied Biosystems (see IBO 11/30/08), resulting in an […]
In a paper published this month, the EPA outlined its strategic plans to implement a new approach to chemical toxicity testing. Current approaches rely almost exclusively on animal testing. The new model for toxicity testing and risk assessment is focused on toxicity pathways. Information on the pathways will be combined with distributional data on population […]
According to a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the three federal agencies charged with detecting seafood fraud—the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Commerce’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the FDA—are not working together effectively. More than 80% of the five billion pounds of seafood […]
Cosmetics containing nanoparticles will undergo a safety assessment procedure starting in 2012, according to regulations passed this month by the European Parliament. The legislation replaces national rules for cosmetics with a single EU-wide set of regulations. Cosmetic ingredients that contain nanoparticles will be subject to additional submission criteria. If questions about the safety of a […]
In order to increase drug exports, Korean pharmaceutical companies are making investments to meet cGMP standards. The Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association estimates that the country’s 65 drug firms have invested KRW 1.9 trillion ($1.4 billion) over the past two years to upgrade their facilities. The country’s largest drug firm, Dong-A Pharmaceutical, intends to spend KRW […]
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