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• Food Safety: EU harmonises the use of flavouring substances
  At a meeting of the Standing Committee (today/yesterday) on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH), Member States endorsed a Commission proposal on the establishment of a European Union list of...
• Sartorius opens new building for membrane manufacture
  The Sartorius technology group has opened a new manufacturing building at its headquarters in Goettingen, Germany, for the production of membranes. After approximately one year of construction, the...
• Cancer drugs: Interactive software simplifies research
  At Analytica 2012, Fraunhofer FIT presents software that supports the search for new active pharmaceutical ingredients of cancer drugs. Through a high degree of parallelization, the software can an...
• Processes at the Surface of Catalysts: Detecting Acitive Centers with Infrared Spectroscopy
  In chemical industry, heterogeneous catalysis is of crucial iportance to the manufacture of basic or fine chemicals, in catalytic converters of exhaust gas, or for the chemical storage of solar ene...
• Environmentally friendly corrosion protection shows its effect by simple spraying
  Materials researchers from Saarbruecken developed a new composite material, which prevents corrosion of metals even under extreme conditions in an environmentally friendly way. It can be used, wher...
• Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Research Organics
  Sigma-Aldrich announced it has acquired all outstanding shares of Cleveland, Ohio-based, Research Organics, Inc., to expand the Company's buffer production capacity and to increase its portfolio of...
• Sartorius Forms Sales Partnership with PBI-Dansensor
  Sartorius has formed a sales partnership with technology provider PBI-Dansensor. The Danish company provides quality assurance and quality control solutions and is a world-renowned supplier to the ...
• Eurofins reinforces leadership in the Benelux testing market
  In March 2012, Eurofins completed the acquisition of LabCo in The Netherlands and Envirocontrol in Belgium. LabCo is one of the key food and feed testing service providers at the Port of Rotterdam,...
• Bruker Announces Acquisition of SkyScan
  Bruker Corporation announced that it has acquired all of the shares of SkyScan N.V., a scientific instruments company located near Antwerp, Belgium. Financial details were not disclosed. For the re...
• Observe DNA-synthesis of bacteria with the naked eye
  The Leibniz-Institute DSMZ GmbH is the first scientific facility in Niedersachsen to use the newest sequencing technology. This technology is the sequencing system PacBio RS, a "third generation" s...
• Smart labels with an excellent memory
  Smart labels based on line or bar codes are an essential part of today's commerce. These one- and two-dimensional codes must all be error free, machine-readable and as tamper-proof as possible.A te...