The World Health Organization (WHO) has named Hong Kong a Collaborating Center for Risk Analysis of Chemicals in Food, a title valid for four years starting in October 2010. The designation is a nod to Hong Kong’s successful food safety measures, including its Center of Food Safety (CFS), which sets food standards and food safety […]
US import lines of FDA-regulated products grew annually by 13%, from 7.9 million in 2002 to 18.5 million in 2009, according to the FDA’s “Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality” report. Between 2002 and 2009, the compound annual growth rates for imported FDA-regulated foods, drugs, medical devices, veterinary products and biologics were 9.5%, 12.9%, […]
For the second half of 2011, sales growth for the global chemicals market is expected to be solid, but volume growth will be milder, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s “Compass 2011: Global Chemicals Sector Midyear Outlook.” Sales have been on the rise due to steeper prices and growth in developing markets. In 2010, Asia Pacific […]
Biomarkers can help indicate if people are likely to develop a disease and how they will respond to treatment, but the connection may be overstated, according to a recent analysis by John Ioannidis and Orestis Panagiotou. Their paper, published in the June 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), examined 35 […]
This month, the US National Science and Technology Council issued a report detailing proposals to enhance the development and use of advanced materials. The Materials Genome Initiative, as it is called, would focus on the infrastructure required to study advanced materials. Current challenges for advanced materials include the lengthy development period and lack of recyclability. […]
Pune, India 5/31/11—Persistent Systems, an India-based provider of outsourced software product development, has agreed to acquire Agilent’s software and marketing and development business based in Grenoble, France. The business is focused on supplying data acquisition and control software for instruments in life science, environmental, energy, applied research and other markets. “Agilent and Persistent have had […]
Lansing, MI 6/20/11—Microbiology kit firm Neogen has purchased the assets of the VeroMara seafood-testing laboratory from GlycoMar, an early-stage discovery company, for an undisclosed amount. VeroMara’s services include testing for shellfish toxins and general foodborne pathogens. The company has annual revenues of $800,000. “VeroMara’s services are complementary and a nice fit with our existing product […]
Essen, Germany 6/28/11—Elster has acquired the GC assets, including intellectual property, of SLS Micro Technology. Elster offers solutions for electricity, gas and water measurement and control providers. It had 2010 sales of $1.8 billion. “The addition of this innovative gas chromatography technology from SLS further strengthens Elster’s position in the emerging biogas and shale gas […]
Austin, TX 6/21/11; Austin, TX 6/27/11—Luminex has acquired EraGen Biosciences, which provides molecular diagnostic testing technologies for infectious disease and genetic applications, for $34 million in cash. EraGen Biosciences’ MultiCode platform is designed for both real-time PCR and multiplex PCR-based applications and includes FDA-cleared products, analyte-specific reagents and research use–only products. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, […]
Instrument and laboratory product companies brought new employees on board last year, indicating the strength of their recovery following the 2009 recession. In fiscal 2010, productivity growth for 20 major publicly held laboratory instrument and product companies climbed 5.1%, compared with a decline of 2.5% in fiscal 2009 for the same companies (see IBO 6/30/10). […]
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