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American pharmaceutical industry officials and trade groups remain cautiously optimistic that intellectual property (IP) negotiations with India can be resolved to the benefit of both nations’ medicine sectors. For now, however, India remains on a so-called ‘priority watch list’ of nations the US is urging to address key IP protection concerns.…

Deadly accidents such as the Rana Plaza disaster may have earned the Bangladesh textile and clothing sector notoriety, but there is a new generation of firms trying to erase that spot on the industry’s reputation.
Smart entrepreneurs are now courting buyers through a new sales pitch: sustainable production.…

Dairy producers in Mexico have turned to product diversification boost sales and avoid more profit losses caused by an increase in costs, weak purchasing power within lower income consumer groups and competition from non-dairy alternatives.
Beatriz de Llano, an analyst for market researchers Euromonitor International, said average unit prices in the sector rising by 7% annually in 2014, because of a rise in farm gate prices caused by cattle feed cost inflation – from MXN5.90 (USD0.38) per litre in 2013 to MXN6.50 (USD0.41) per litre in 2014.…

The lack of coordinated control of unmanned aircraft (drones) gathering information and data following a disaster such as the recent Nepal earthquake has been highlighted at the bi-annual European Civil Protection Forum, in Brussels. A debate staged on April 6 on the subject was told by Michel Feider, director of Luxembourg’s Search and Rescue Agency (CHECK), that there had been poor co-ordination between the groups using drones responding to the earthquake disaster Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were trying to map the resulting physical damage and monitor population movements and camps, as they had done following the Hurricane Sandy incident in Haiti five years ago.…

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an increasingly dynamic and affluent 10-member bloc with a population half the size if China’s, plans to achieve a single aviation market (SAM) by the end of 2015 as a part of its broader ambition to launch its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) research into anti-corruption policies has concluded that projects spending EU funds are one-third more likely to be marred by corruption than those funded by EU national governments. The conclusion comes from the ANTICORRP project, whose researchers have been data mining hundreds of thousands of administrative records to find irregularities, where procurement has been un-transparent, inconsistent and/or seems to consistently benefit one or a group of companies or individuals.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a final opinion from an expert committee on whether plastics additive bisphenol A is safe to use in medical devices – the conclusion: yes, in most cases. Only with the use of plastic devices for new born babies is there a risk of contamination that might pose health problems, concluded the European Union (EU) Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR).…

Manufacturing powerhouse South Korea began its cap-and-trade system on January 1, 2015 as a part of an overarching goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4% reduction below 2005 emissions levels. If achieved, that would leave emissions at 30% lower in 2020 than they would be if current increases are maintained.…

Online sales of unbranded personal care products that are either clearly counterfeit or sold in a way that alludes to an established brand are legion, as the industry well knows.
But how easy is it to spot such products on the internet?…

THE INDIAN hair care market – estimated at being worth Indian Rupees INR152 billion (USD 2.3 billion) in 2013-14 (Source: Madras Consultancy Group) is growing, through the young and thriving Indian middle class, a general retail boom and cosmetics and personal care product marketers targeting smaller towns and rural areas.…