Keyword: WHO

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EU Postpones Glyphosate Vote Again

20.05.2016 - Yet again, the European Commission has postponed a vote on extending the registration of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds-to-herbicide program. The...

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UN/WHO Says Glyphosate Unlikely Carcinogen

17.05.2016 - In an opinion published on the eve of the European Commission’s possibly final discussion over whether to extend the registration of glyphosate for a further 15 years, the United...

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WHO Recommends Sanofi’s Dengue Vaccine

18.04.2016 - The World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) has recommended the use of Sanofi’s Dengvaxia vaccine to prevent dengue fever in...

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French Minister Will Ask Garden Shops not to Sell Roundup

14.06.2015 - French Environment and Energy Minister Segolène Royal has told the French television network France 3 she plans to ask garden shops to stop selling Monsanto's glyphosate weed...

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WHO Scientists Analyzing 2,4-D Cancer Links

08.06.2015 - At a meeting in Lyon, France, this week 24 scientists representing the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will analyze scientific...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Maximum Safety by Consistent Quality Management

30.04.2015 - The amended EU directive on good distribution practice (GDP) has been in force since 2013. It transfers many principles familiar from pharmaceutical manufacturing to the...

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Residues of Glyphosate Found in Food and Body Fluids

17.04.2015 - Private labs in the US are said to have found significant residues of the glyphosate weed-killer, marketed by agrochemicals giant Monsanto as Roundup, in samples of honey, soy...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Pharma In Africa

05.03.2014 - Up And Up - Long known for its struggles with infectious diseases and poverty, the continent of Africa is experiencing widespread economic growth. An increasing middle class and...