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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GERMAN government is giving Euro EUR1.2 million to a UN project expanding and upgrading small and medium-sized generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in Asia and Africa. It is run by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and aims to spread medicine manufacture across a continent where production is mainly concentrated in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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A UNITED Nations campaign could – if successful – significantly increase worldwide demand for soap. Its Global Handwashing Day has highlighted how diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases kill 3.5 million children aged under five annually, and that washing their hands after using toilets and before handling food can reduce such deaths by 40% and 23% respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project BLUEPRINT will spend Euro EUR40 million on examining the behaviour of blood genes in healthy people and leukaemia patients. Its consortium of 41 European universities, research centres and companies want to create 100 reference models of gene collections and environments, helping pharmaceutical companies tailor the development of medicines for different categories of patients.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, KARRYN MILLER, GAVIN BLAIR, KEITH NUTHALL

MOST drinks manufacturers would bridle at the accusation that they used anything unnatural to make their products: after all poisoning consumers is bad for business. But in the world of marketing, everything is relative, and some ingredients are so fresh and untainted with processing chemicals that they can, simply, be sold as being more ‘natural’ than standard inputs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN chemical industry federation CEFIC has called for a review of administration under European Union (EU) chemical control system REACH to help small-and-medium-sized paint and other chemical companies (SMEs) deal with its burden. As the first key REACH chemical deadline of November 30 approaches, CEFIC director general Hubert Mandery said REACH costs hit smaller firms hard, especially for the oncoming two REACH registrations, involving smaller tonnages of chemicals.…

BY David Haworth

New plans for broadening the two-way street between African and European universities were unveiled at a conference in Brussels when 150 delegates from both continents debated closer ties in higher education.

The conference focused on the newly published White Paper on bridging arrangements between institutions and greater cooperation between European scholars and their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPECIAL properties of nanomaterials are a step closer to becoming controlled through a comprehensive European Union (EU) regulation, having been defined by the EU’s scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks. It has released an extensive report that specifies how nanomaterials can be identified, not just through their tiny scale, but by how they appear and behave within consumer products.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SPECIAL properties of nanomaterials are a step closer to becoming controlled through a comprehensive European Union (EU) regulation, having been defined by the EU’s scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks. It has released an extensive report that specifies how nanomaterials can be identified, not just through their tiny scale, but by how they appear and behave within consumer products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, KARRYN MILLER, GAVIN BLAIR, KEITH NUTHALL

MOST drinks manufacturers would bridle at the accusation that they used anything unnatural to make their products: after all poisoning consumers is bad for business. But in the world of marketing, everything is relative, and some ingredients are so fresh and untainted with processing chemicals that they can, simply, be sold as being more ‘natural’ than standard inputs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SUGAR has been at the centre of continuing concern about fraud draining European Union (EU) budgets of duty revenue. The latest operational report from EU anti-fraud unit OLAF (which reviewed 2009) recalled how fraudsters made millions of Euros from exporting 3,400 tonnes of sugar from the EU to neighbouring non-member state Croatia via the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.…