Sixty-six percent of managers involved with plant and company operations who responded to Food Processing’s tenth annual Manufacturing Trends Survey were optimistic about 2011, similar to last year’s results. Fifty-seven percent of the 425 respondents listed food safety as their primary concern. Seventy-five percent employed new food safety measures in 2010, and 73% plan to […]

Global spending on R&D is expected to increase 3.6% in 2011 to nearly $1.2 trillion, according to Battelle Memorial Institute and R&D Magazine’s joint analysis. It is estimated that the Americas, Asia and Europe will account for 38%, 35% and 23% of R&D spending, respectively. R&D Magazine’s 2011 Global Research Study surveyed 378 predominantly private […]

Though the US chemical industry rebounded in 2010 after two years of declines, it still lags in growth, said American Chemistry Council (ACC) economists. Overall US chemical production volumes are estimated to increase by 3.1% in 2010 and 3.0% in 2011, compared with declines of 4.7% and 4.5% in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Excluding pharmaceuticals, […]

A Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development report indicates that pharmaceutical companies are increasingly using personalized medicine to develop drugs. According to Christopher-Paul Milne, associate director at the center, 12%–50% of drugs in development rely on a personalized medicine approach, which often involves tests to indicate which patients are most likely to experience […]

The American Medical Association has adopted the Endocrine Society’s resolution encouraging the standardization of testosterone assays. Patient care and research utilizing testosterone assays has recently become popular, following research that links testosterone with various diseases and conditions. The assays measure testosterone levels for the diagnosis and treatment of such disorders as testicular or pituitary diseases […]