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BMBF Project “Polytos2: Printed Organic Circuits and Memory” successfully completed
04-Sep-2014
After two years of intense collaboration with nine other consortium partners Merck, the consortium leader, has successfully completed the Polytos2 project funded with a sum of EUR 4.8 million by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). Within the scope of this project, Merck ...
Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assurance
01-Aug-2014
It is seldom sufficient to read the declaration of contents if you need to know precisely what substances a product contains. In fact, to do this you need to be a highly skilled chemist or to have genuine X-ray vision so that you can look directly into the molecular structure of the various ...
Speeding food safety tests to deliver fresher products
05-Jun-2014
A research team led by food scientist Sam Nugen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a $495,950 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to improve food safety by developing faster methods for detecting and ...
Fraunhofer to become a new BfR research partner
12-May-2014
The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. are to sign a cooperation contract today in which they agree on close cooperation in research for the purpose of improving food safety in all stages of the supply chain. The ...
Food safety at analytica 2014: Trace analysis for our health
04-Mar-2014
How safe is our food? This is a volatile issue for many consumers and a major challenge for the food-analysis sector. The only way to perform quality and origin analyses is with state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. That is why the topic of food analysis is an interdisciplinary focal point ...
Food safety in Europe - who does what?
The BfR publishes the third, extended edition of the EU Food Safety Almanac
04-Dec-2013
The horse meat scandal of January 2013 once again made it clear: food scandals do not stop at national borders. The value-added chain in food production reached European dimensions a long time ago in that both raw materials and semi-finished goods are now traded and distributed across national ...
With carbon nanotubes, a path to flexible, low-cost sensors
Potential applications range from air-quality monitors to electronic skin
27-Sep-2013
Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices. A leading example is a gas sensor that could be integrated into food packaging to gauge freshness, or into compact wireless ...
Monitoring the air they breathe in China
27-May-2013
Research describes the development of a simple, low-cost passive air sampler for monitoring indoor air pollution in China. Air quality in China is a hot topic, with air pollution rivalling food safety and clean drinking water as a key theme for Chinese lawmakers. Scientists at Tsinghua University ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific to Acquire Life Technologies Corporation
16-Apr-2013
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will acquire Life Technologies for $76.00 in cash per fully diluted common share, or approximately $13.6 billion, plus the assumption of net debt at close ($2.2 billion as of ...
Leading Platform for the Analysis and Biotechnology Industry analytica China 2012 will open in Shanghai in October
24-Sep-2012
In recent years, life standard and health has become more significant in China. This country has increased its investment and policy-making in bio-medicine, food safety, environmental protection and public health accordingly. Moreover, as China involves further into international trading, quality ...
