Biotech industry supports common security market for Bio-Preparedness (19 Feb 2008)
EuropaBio, the European Association for Bio-Industries, welcomes the conclusions from the STACCATO workshop on Bio-Preparedness. Approximately 100 experts in the field of bio-safety and bio-security met with the European Commission DG Health ......
Europe at the cutting edge of nanotechnology development (27 Nov 2007)
Policy-makers, scientists and industrialists came together in Braga, Portugal to discuss the future of nanotechnology research in Europe. According to the European Commission, this comes at a positive time for European nanotechnology, with the ......
Eight of the total of 16 Reference Laboratories within BfR have been newly appointed (12 Dec 2006)
Reference laboratories are of key importance for consumer health protection. Together with the public agencies of the federal states, they elaborate the standards for the work of the test laboratories involved in food monitoring. Reference ......