Biopharmaceutical company Protalix BioTherapeutics has received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate clinical trials of PRX-102. The Company is planning to ...
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Allstate has reported that its net income rose by 46.2% to $766m for the first quarter of 2012, or $1.53 per diluted share compared to a net income of $524m, or $0.98 per diluted share in the same period in 2011. Allstate chairman, ...
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The US District Court for the District of New Jersey has ruled against Merck, known as MSD outside the US and Canada, in a patent litigation against Apotex. The patent at issue in the case covers the active ingredient in Nasonex, ...
XL Group has added six seasoned underwriters to its US cyberliability underwriting group, and also appointed a new vice president to its Select Professional group, in a bid to expand its technology underwriting capabilities in New York, ...
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National Farmers Union (NFU) (England and Wales) launched a new campaign to clarify labeling on supermarket products which encourages the public to take photos of poor food labels/merchandising and upload them to Facebook. The NFU's 'Flag ...
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Canada-based retail chain Loblaw is voluntarily recalling President's Choice (PC) brand Milk Chocolate covered Raisins as the product contains almonds that is not mentioned on the label, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ...
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Vacumet, a metalized paper manufacturer, has announced to make compostable paper for packaging and meets the ASTM D-6868 standards. Offering an environmentally sound alternative to foil, foil laminated papers, and metallized films, the ...
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Apparel exporters from Sri Lanka must try to further expand into emerging markets like India and China,A Sukumaran,former chairman of Joint Apparel Association Forum(JAAF)has said. Speaking at the 9th Annual General Meeting of ...
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Proacta, a San Diego based biotechnology company, has announced FDA approval of investigational new drug (IND) application for PR610, a hypoxia-activated irreversible multi-kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of cancer. With the IND ...
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Lituanica UK has issued an expanded recall of Pasaka Vermiseliai Pasta in the UK, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Pasaka Vermiseliai Pasta (400g) was earlier recalled on 18 June, as product was labeled as being egg free, but ...
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The FSA in Scotland has published a report identifying key knowledge gaps and recommending areas for future research on enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). The recommendations are a result of an international workshop held in ...
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Vacmet India has announced its foray into the bi-axially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film business with the commencement of its new Brückner high speed film production line, which helps the company to bring up to 40,000t of ...
The National Fenestration Rating Council announced that the following members have been elected to the 2013 board of directors: Traco's Sneh Kumar; Jeff Baker of WESTLab Canada; Mahabir Bhandari of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and ...
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Euphoria Fancy Foods, a firm based in New York, US, is recalling dried bream fish imported from Russia as the fish was processed in a way that puts consumers at risk of botulism. Botulism is an illness caused by Clostridium botulinum ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless (NSSC), the largest stainless steel producer in Japan announced to leave its domestic prices for stainless cold rolled coils (CRC) and plates unchanged for December contracts. Its' learned that NSSC cut ...
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