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A EUROPEAN Union (EU) scientific committee has also been considering the safety of nano-silver as an antimicrobial textile finishing chemical but it has sounded an alarm about potential health concerns. The EU’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks has noted studies indicating that “nanosilver exposure leads possibly to genotoxicity, changes in activity of the immune system and an accumulation of silver in spleen, liver and testes.”…

ETHIOPIA, whose large economy grew 8.5% in 2012, is cracking down on corruption. Ed Mckenna, reports from Addis Ababa.

LAST year saw Ethiopian authorities make their biggest move against corruption in more than 10 years, leading to the arrests of more than 50 high profile citizens, including government officials, businessmen and even a minister.…

PRODUCERS of anti-ageing and extra moisturising products in the United States are benefitting as the national population ages. “People are living longer…it’s good for business…they are buying products longer in their lives,” said Jeffrey Light, president of Aroma Naturals, California, which in March 2014 launched its ‘Amazing 30’ range of care products for skin types including old age.…

EDUCATION institutions in Canada have interpreted changes to the nation’s copyright laws with impunity, threatening the sustainability of the publishing and creating industry, charges publishing and author representatives. Universities, colleges and schools are taking the inclusion of “short excerpts” in 2012 amendments to the Canada Copyright Act as allowing 10% of published material to be copied without licence, noted Carolyn Wood, executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers.…

THREE of the world’s biggest marine coatings markets – China, South Korea and Japan – have a lot in common even though they face diverse market conditions across Asia, according to market analysts. China’s shipyards will power growth in the Asia-Pacific marine coatings market, but it is the major international coatings companies and their China-based joint ventures that remain in prime position to benefit, according to new research from consultancy Frost & Sullivan.  …

AS the 2015 deadline for the full integration of the ASEAN economic community (AEC) approaches, it is becoming clear that while trade and standards harmonisation is right on target (and in some sectors well advanced) among member nations, the infinite details of this process for the coatings sector will be a work in process for many years to come.…

EUROPEAN accountants are looking to the negotiations for a free trade agreement between the USA and the European Union (EU) with the hope that it will make it easier for them to switch shores of the Atlantic to practice their profession.…

THE LUXEMBOURG government has been asked to provide detail of the tax decisions it has made regarding an 80% tax exemption for profits made from IP rights such as patents, trademarks, designs, models, internet domain names and software copyrights. The European Commission is worried that the Grand Duchy is abusing the system to grant tax benefits to a select group of companies, regardless of how much research they undertake.…

THE USE of nonwovens manufacturing technology to make woundcare products has always been a key part of the nonwovens sector, but increasingly one of its fastest-growing global niches is medical single-use disposables. This is partly due to legislative changes in the US; partly to hopes for fast track, permanent elimination of the European Union’s (EU) 4.3% import tariff on America nonwovens; and partly to catch-up usage in Asia, and to a lesser extent Europe, where the supplanting of long-established re-use practices appears to have barely begun.…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has assessed several hundred responses from the pharmaceutical industry to a “reflection paper on the use of interactive response technologies (interactive voice/web response systems or IRT) in clinical trials.” An EMA official explained to Manufacturing Chemist that the intention of the paper and the consultation was “to provide the current thinking of the inspectors working groups on the use of interactive response technology systems, with particular mention of the removal of expiry dates from investigational medicinal product.”…