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India and Pakistan are trying to remove barriers that are hindering the trade of cotton and textile between these two neighbouring countries, however deep-rooted historic and political resentments continue to hinder progress.
These have helped put out of reach a major trade deal that would sweep away import-export barriers, despite the governments of both countries having relatively new electoral mandates.…

BANGLADESH’S textile and clothing exporters, who are still reeling from the impact of continuing political unrest in the country, now face a second shock wave: the free fall of the Euro.

Industry lobbyists and analysts fear the European single currency’s decline in value will cut exporters’ profit margins, weakening their ability to compete in the 19 counties using the Euro.…

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued a guideline advising pharmaceutical companies on how to manage elemental impurities in medicines already on the market. The guideline applies to new finished drug products containing purified proteins and polypeptides (including proteins and polypeptides produced from recombinant or non-recombinant origins), their derivatives, and component products, for instance conjugates.…

The head of a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) has told Manufacturing Chemist that his team has made significant progress towards developing potential new ways of delivering vaccines that could offer better protection against pathogens and diseases for which life-long protective immunity cannot currently be generated.…

The possibility of a global paediatric research network has taken firmer shape in recent months with European Union (EU) industry representatives and medical regulators expressing support for a tie-up with their US colleagues and those from other countries. The issue is being taken up by a working group set up by the European Network of Paediatric Research (Enpr-EMA) in the European Medicines Agency (EMA).…

THE RE-EXAMINATION of European Union (EU) market authorisations following concerns over clinical trials conducted by GVK Biosciences in Hyderabad, India, has sparked intense debate in Brussels.

A European Parliament hearing has heard comment and details about the recommendation from the European Medicine Agency’s committee for medicinal products for human use (CHMP) that some 800 forms and dosages of medicines approved in the EU be suspended.…

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) is lending Euro EUR20 million to Croatia pharmaco Jadran Galenski Laboratorij d.d. (JGL) to help double its production, hopefully becoming an international player in the sterile solutions segment. The second largest pharmaceutical company in Croatia, it specialises in sterile nose, eye and ear drop solutions, exporting 75% of its production.…

Company fraud has cost UK small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) nearly GBP8 billion (USD12.35 billion) during their lifetimes, according to research by global information services company Experian.

Its survey of 508 senior decision makers found 13% (almost 286,000) of UK SMEs had been defrauded; 27% of SMEs with more than nine employees; and 11% per cent of micro businesses, with fewer staff. …

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has to cut import duties for bio feedstock such as sugar and bioethanol coming from the US to allow for a bio-polymer industry to grow in Europe, the executive director for industrial policy at the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) said yesterday.…

The Egyptian energy sector is facing numerous challenges in the immediate and long-term, mirroring how the country is struggling to secure political stability. Insufficient power supply is resulting in sporadic power cuts in the major cities, driving up sales of private generators.…