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A five-year pharmacoepidemiological research project on the outcomes of therapeutics – aimed at strengthening the assessment of medicines – has wrapped up, with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) planning to review results this year, according to an EMA statement.
The ‘Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European Consortium’ (PROTECT) project was launched to develop innovative methods to monitor the benefits and risks of medicines marketed in Europe.…

Negative media publicity surrounding infections in poultry flocks and farming practices in Norway has sparked resulted in a 15% to 20% drop in domestic chicken meat sales in the last six months, to mid-February.
The decline is now a major source of concern for the country’s poultry industry, which has countered the fall in sales by launching new multi-channel marketing campaigns.…

Swedish supermarkets, led by major chain the ICA Group, are threatening to suspend imports of Danish pork following reports by animal rights organisations complaining about the culling of up to 500,000 under-weight newborn piglets, weighing less than one kilo, on Danish farms each year.…

Sweden’s ministry of agriculture is funding a new pilot-project that seeks to establish if holding sows in farrowing crates allows more piglets to survive if the sow is immobilised during lactating.
Under current animal welfare laws, pig farmers in Sweden are required to ensure that sows that have just given birth are housed in separate stalls, where they are able to freely move around.…

QUALITY suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and suspicious activity reports (SARs) around the world are crucial to identifying and combatting money laundering – but a lack of feedback from law enforcement and financial intelligence units (FIUs) can discourage reporting entities from working to improve their reports.…

A BREAKTHROUGH project that could return all olive oil waste back to the olive oil production cycle by turning it into onsite energy could bring significant profit margin improvements to the industry, while reducing its environmental impact. 
The European Union (EU)-funded pilot project Biogas2PEM-FC, based in Andalucía, southern Spain, uses  “valourisation” techniques to deal with waste, as opposed to the traditional method of “depositing or using physical, physicochemical or biological methods for detoxification, which is costly,” explained Per Ekdunge, the Swedish fuel cell technology company PowerCell’s vice  president and chief technology officer.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is developing new water-repelling coatings and application processes for Europe’s expanding wind power sector. The Euro EUR4.2 million HYDROBOND project has created metal and ceramic-based coatings applied by cold gas blasting process, which propels nano-scale powder particles onto a surface at three times the speed of sound, compressing and strengthening the resulting coating.…

EGYPT’S USD515 million paint market (Egyptian Pounds EGP3.93 billion), as valued by market researchers Frost & Sullivan) is still reeling from the impact of the country’s 2011 revolution, along with sluggish economic growth, but the country’s burgeoning population growth is keeping demand afloat.…

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) should invest in gas interconnections between member states to make its mooted EU Energy Union a success, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has claimed.
Speaking (Feb 6) at a conference on the topic in Riga, Latvia, Maria van der Hoeven, said: “If done right, [the Energy Union] could be enormously beneficial to the region in terms of boosting economic growth, promoting energy security, completing the internal market and encouraging investment.”…

MIDDLE Eastern national oil companies do not always spring most readily to mind when demand for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is discussed. The most obvious example of a country ‘least likely to’ need EOR is Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil reserves and a history of being able to rely on natural lift to produce.…