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BioScience News Daily Highlights - December 17
Daily Highlights
1. Pre-seed fund organisations
approved
2. NZ biotech firms announce plans to
merge
3. Pfizer to aquire CSL animal health
business
4. Genesis Research transfers plant science
business
5. US farmers continue to adopt biotech
6.
Minister launches WTO trade rules publication
7. FSANZ
seeks public comment on changes to the Food Standards
Code
Pre-seed fund organisations approved
Ten New
Zealand public sector research providers have been given the
responsibility to utilise a new fund that aims to bridge the
gap between generating new knowledge and creating an
'investor-ready' ...
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NZ
biotech firms announce plans to merge
Two of the late
Howard Paterson's biotech babies are to merge. Directors of
listed company Botry-Zen and unlisted PharmaZen announced
yesterday that preliminary work on a merger had been carried
o...
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Pfizer
to aquire CSL animal health business
Leading blood
products group, CSL, is set to reap a $100 million premium
from the divestment of its animal health operations.CSL has
entered an agreement to sell its animal health vaccines
busines...
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Genesis
Research transfers plant science business
Genesis
Research and Development Corporation confirms that it has
completed the transfer of its plant sciences business to a
wholly owned subsidiary, AgriGenesis Biosciences Limited,
which is now trad...
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US
farmers continue to adopt biotech
The adoption of
agricultural biotechnology in the United States continues to
grow, offering increasing economic and environmental
benefits, according to results of a study funded by a major
U.S. biote...
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Minister
launches WTO trade rules publication
Trade Negotiations
and Biosecurity Minister Jim Sutton today launched "Balance
in Trade", a new publication about the World Trade
Organisation rules on plant and animal health measures and
why they ar...
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FSANZ
seeks public comment on changes to the Food Standards
Code
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) invites
public comment on a number of possible changes to the Food
Standards Code.Proposed changes include; format and listing
of nutrients in the nutr...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5675
From
the BioScience News Team
BioScience Communications
Limited
Editor: Christine
Ross
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