The UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes(ACNFP)is seeking views over the use of vitamin D-rich baker's yeast as a novel food ingredient. This move comes after Canadian firm Lallemand sought the approval to market vitamin ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ZALTRAP (ziv-aflibercept) injection to be used in combination with 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan (FOLFIRI) to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) that is ...
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Intelipac Innovations has debuted with the water soluble reusable bag, which is made from a special blend material that is IP protected. According to the UK-based firm, the bag can be reused repeatedly and can be dissolved in water if it ...
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JBT FoodTech,an American food processing machinery provider owned by JBT,has signed a$4m cooking and freezing equipment supply contract with an international frozen food provider. Under the deal,JBT FoodTech will supply and develop ...
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Daxor's BVA-100 blood volume analyzer has been purchased by a hospital located in Arizona ,US. Semi-automated BVA-100 analyzer is designed to provide rapid direct measurement of a patient's true blood volume. Daxor said the FDA-approved ...
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Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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Qualcomm on Monday said it has appointed a former Intel executive to run marketing as the company expands in the mobile device space. As chief marketing officer, Anand Chandrasekher will handle Qualcomm's global marketing and external ...
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Speculation last week of an impending new iPhone triggered a 70% increase in the number of owners trying to unload their current smartphones, online auctioneer eBay said. Smartphone trade-in offers at eBay's Instant Sale site during the ...
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Samsung Electronics will start shipping the Galaxy Note 10.1 later this month, with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and a software feature from the Galaxy S III. When it revealed the Galaxy Note 10.1 at Mobile World Congress in February, ...
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Since this year, timber prices, let furniture manufacturer to unbearable. The fierce market competition let manufacturers to small talk rises in price, and more rising costs, and make the enterprise in declining profits, even the condition ...
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Chile's softwood lumber exports dropped by 17% in a year-on-year comparison to 583, 873 m³ in the second quarter of 2012, according to preliminary information from Odepa. This fall was mainly due to a slump in deliveries to South Korea ...
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British sawmills raised their share of the domestic softwood lumber market sharply last year to 41%. This is the result the forestry company UPM Tilhill comes to after assessing data from HMRC. The data shows that lumber imports to the UK ...
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Sunshine Heart has obtained conditional approval for its new C-Pulse system driver from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new driver, which features a lighter single unit and a number of software enhancements, is designed to ...
European particleboard production dipped 1.7% to 30.220m m³ last year after edging slightly higher in 2010. By contrast, MDF/HDF production improved 1.7% to 11.7m m³ in 2011. Both figures are still significantly lower than the ...
Tags: market view, MDF, HDF, wood panel
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America has registered 21% rise in operating profit, which stood at $381m for the first half of 2012, against a profit of $315m in the comparable period last year. The underwriter claimed that its ...
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