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CHINA’S huge cosmetics market remains a battleground for the world’s multinational personal care product players and they are still more than holding their own against local manufacturers and brands, especially in higher end segments.

The country’s overall cosmetics and personal care product market was worth Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY274 billion (USD44 billion) in 2013, according to data provided by market analysts Euromonitor International.…

Plastic banknotes have been in circulation since their introduction in Australia in 1988 and the consensus so far seems to be that they do an excellent job of a key requirement – reducing counterfeiting. It may be that forgers will gain more expertise in time – faking is considerably more difficult on plastic than on cotton-based paper – but the initial reports from larger countries that have taken this route, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, have persuaded the UK’s Bank of England to follow them.

A EURO EUR7.8 million, largely European Union (EU)-funded research project is analysing anonymised clinical data from nearly 2,000 epilepsy sufferers to work towards the personalisation of medicine for the condition. The goal is to create genome-based biomarkers to indicate potential success for epilepsy medicines, and the development of diagnostic tests.…

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that European Union (EU) member states can insist pharma companies yield data of side-effects of their medicines, when demanded by a disgruntled patient. The ECJ was assessing whether member states could pass such laws under EU directive 85/374/EEC on consumer protection liability for defective products.…

The Open University of Tanzania (OUT) is reaching out to higher education institutions in other neighbouring countries to establish collaborations that will encourage more foreign students to enroll for distance learning.
University vice chancellor Professor Tolly Mbwette said the institution’s board hoped to spread its influence regionally: “We are now the largest distance learning university in the region and our plan is to take distance learning to most countries in East Africa and those under the Southern African Development Community [SADC] by 2016.”…

European parliamentarians debating European Commission proposals for the voluntary self-certification by European companies importing tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold from ‘conflict and high risk’ regions have called for more clarity about how the system would operate.

In the first exchange of views on the proposal in the European Parliament, centre-right Romanian MEP Iuliu Winkler told the institution’s international trade committee members.…

Pork containing MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has been detected during random checks by Sweden’s national veterinary institute (Statens veterinärmedicinska) inspectors. This follows random tests on a range of meat products being offered for sale in various grocery supermarket chains in the Stockholm area in mid-November.…

AUTOMOTIVE dealers in east Africa have welcomed a comprehensive trade deal, finalised earlier this month (Thursday Oct 16), between the European Union (EU) and the East African Community (EAC) as demand in EAC countries grows for European vehicles.

The deal is designed to boost trade, including automobiles and parts, between the two regions.…

A controversy in Germany over potential carcinogens in tea is threatening the benefits offered by an incoming European Union (EU) geographical indication protection for Darjeeling Tea. 

The claims made by a German consumer magazine Warentest have damaged confidence in Indian tea and hit sales.…

Soap and personal care manufacturers worldwide have responded to the Ebola epidemic with donations of their products to directly affected regions.     Their goal especially has been to promote cleanliness as a means of limiting the spread of the disease. For instance, the USA’s Avadim Technologies has donated its advanced Theraworx sanitation products to Liberia, in partnership with Eblen Charities, for instance.…