The demands on disinfectants are significantly elevated compared to a few decades ago. The entire process of development—from the labs to the end-user—creates a network...
23.10.2017
- Environmental authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate have criticized BASF’s information policy in the wake of a mid-October incident at the chemical giant’s new...
27.06.2017
- US chemical giant DuPont and its spin-off company Chemours are in the news again in connection with fears of drinking water contamination in the US. Attention is focused once more...
26.07.2016
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a stern letter to Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) warning about ongoing cross-contamination problems at its facility in Worthing, UK. The...
07.05.2015
- How well does industry manage water resources? The general tendency today is to take a holistic systems approach. More process water is being recirculated and industrial producers...
21.08.2013
- Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of...
30.11.2012
- Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories will stop manufacturing its version of Pfizer's cholesterol fighter, Lipitor, while it gets to the bottom of the cause of a recent...
03.07.2012
- German chemicals maker BASF and oil major Shell have been told by a Brazilian court to pay 1.06 billion Brazilian real ($525.23 million) into a compensation fund for former...