The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food has completed its review of the Safe Food for Canadians Act and has now referred it back to the House of Commons for Report ...
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Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that ...
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Woolworths Ltd today (23 July) revealed it was able to grow its full-year sales, despite the Australian retailer's supermarkets reporting falling prices. In an announcement to the Australian stock exchange, Woolworths said sales rose by ...
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Rosneft President Igor Sechin Tuesday met Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan to discuss the terms of an intergovernmental agreement to build and operate a refining and petrochemical complex in China's Tianjin, the state-owned Russian oil ...
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IDG News Service-German consumer organizations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a ...
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Business Line reported that at a time when the state government's tough stance on renewal of mining leases has come under attack from the mining fraternity, the lack of communication between forest and mining departments on status of mine ...
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According to Deutsche Bank AG, BHP Billiton Ltd, the world's biggest mining company may attract investment of USD 2 billion from fertilizer makers as well as sovereign wealth funds in its Canadian potash project. Deutsche analysts Mr ...
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PharmaPros has signed a deal for its study management technology, Dataflow Manager, with an undisclosed pharmaceutical company. The pharmaceutical company will leverage the platform for performance-based trial management processes, to ...
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a new Patent No. 8,298,554 to Amarin's pharmaceutical composition of ultra pure omega-3 fatty acid product. The patent covers the claims related to application No.12/769,885 for the ...
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Hawaii has seen an ever larger increase in solar electricity production from solar farms and residents. Hawaii electricity comes from its imports of diesel, low sulfur fuel oil (LSFO), and naphtha, but with government incentives, increased ...
Vedanta Resources PLC controlled by billionaire Mr Anil Agarwal is counting on a court verdict next month to secure raw material and revive a faltering USD 9 billion aluminum project in India. Mr Mukesh Kumar COO of Vedanta Resources said ...
Kalo Foods,a US-based producer of gourmet products,plans to open a new gluten-free gourmet bakery in Stokesdale near North Carolina,US. The plant will create 21 jobs,and the average salary for the newly hired staff will be ...
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The US Department of the Treasury has launched an underwritten public offering of $18bn of its American International Group (AIG) common stock, of which AIG is likely to purchase $5bn of the stock at the initial public offering price. The ...
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The U.S.House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution urging the U.S.government not to give the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union(ITU)control over the Internet. The resolution was adopted by the House on ...
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Spain - In order to undertake the increasingly challenging Neuromarketing research at his Laboratory of Human-Centered Technology (known as LabHuman), at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Prof. Dr. Mariano Alcaniz Raya, needed to ...
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