The European Commission has granted conditional marketing authorization for Pfizer’s Xalkori (crizotinib) to treat anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the European Union (EU). ...
Tags: Xalkori, crizotinib, anaplastic lymphoma kinase, ALK
The European Commission (EC) has granted orphan drug designation to Sunesis Pharmaceuticals' Vosaroxin drug. Vosaroxin is a first-in-class anti-cancer quinolone derivative, (AQD), used for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). ...
Tags: vosaroxin, AQD, AML, anti-cancer quinolone derivative
Insignia Technologies,which has developed a new food packaging ink that can help lower food waste,is planning global expansion after receiving funding. The new ink changes its color when it is exposed to oxygen,UV light,humidity levels ...
Tags: food packaging ink, food waste, funding, global expansion
The Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs(Defra)is asking businesses and consumers for their views on the government's plans to bring in legislation that will improve the information provided to consumers,so they are able to ...
Tags: legislation, informed choices, food labelling legislation
Malta is set to build a new fish center to boost the country's fish processing industry. The €3m project will be 75% funded by the European Union (EU). The new center, located in Marsa, will replace an old reverse osmosis facility. ...
Tags: new fish center, fish processing industry, osmosis facility
South African paper and packaging company Mondi Group has secured European Union (EU) regulatory approval for its $782m acquisition of packaging company Nordenia in Germany from private equity firm Oaktree Capital. According to Mondi, the ...
Tags: paper and packaging, flexible packaging, consumer products
American biotechnology firm Senomyx has announced that the company's certain flavor modifiers have positive determinations regarding safety from the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives(JECFA). The company said that it has ...
Tags: flavor modifiers, JECFA, bitter blockers
The Grinch stole Argentina's bike market this year, but the industry hopes the spirit of Christmas softens the government's stance and import laws are softened in time for the holidays, the traditional start of the Argentine bike season. ...
Tags: Argentina's bike market, consumer products, import requirements
The company behind a new factory in Bangladesh says business is picking up, with the ink drying on a deal to produce a half-million bicycle frames for a European supplier for the next five years. GermanBangla Bicycle Ltd. — a ...
Tags: bicycle, bicycle frames, aluminum frames
The UK Food Standards Agency(FSA)is advising people that eating lead-shot game on a frequent basis can expose them to potentially harmful levels of lead.The FSA has advised frequent consumers of lead-shot game to eat less of this type of ...
Saladax Biomedical has received CE mark for its MyPaclitaxel and MyDocetaxel therapeutic dose management (TDM) MyCare assays, enabling commercialisation in the European Union (EU). Both paclitaxel and docetaxel are administered based on a ...
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UK-based European Recycling Platform (ERP) has announced that its application for approval to operate a packaging compliance scheme has been approved by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). ERP UK managing ...
The European Union has granted CE mark to W.L.Gore&Associates'endovascular stent-graft with a new 35 mm trunk-ipsilateral leg and 36 mm aortic extender. Inserted through a catheter-based delivery technique,the GORE EXCLUDER AAA ...
Tags: GORE, European Union, CE mark, aortic business
Abbott will expand the current CE-IVD product labeling for its Vysis ALK Break Apart FISH Probe Kit to allow the test to be marketed in the European Union as a companion diagnostic. The test uses Abbott's proprietary fluorescence in situ ...
Tags: Abbott, anaplastic lymphoma kinase, ALK, FISH technology
The Ministry of Textiles and The Indian Silk Export Promotion Council (ISEPC) in association with Textiles Committee, under the Ministry of Textiles is organising a Capacity Building Programme (CBP) under the project “Implication of ...
Tags: Textiles Committee, Textiles Exports, Clothing Exports, textile industry