Archives for January 15, 2008

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Pfizer Japan cleaning out its closet

Pfizer Japan is cleaning out its closet, selling a range of its "surplus" biotech and pharmaceutical lab equipment via an online auction, a method that is slowly catching on in the country.

Sarkozy slammed for GM crop ban

By  staff reporter

The Biotechnology Industry Organization has fired a broadside at French President Nicolas Sarkozy after he banned a GM corn crop without, it says, 'any scientific basis'.

Thirst for outsourcing fuelling product recalls

By  Kirsty Barnes

Product recalls in the UK due to health and safety concerns have shot up to their highest level, with the rise in outsourcing to China finger pointed for much of the blame.