Available from Viscotek, a leader in multiple detection characterisation of synthetic and natural polymers, the Model 302 triple detector array (TDA) represents the cutting edge in detector technology for pharmaceutical analysis.

Paulus Verschuren is deputy director of the Unilever Health Institute in the Netherlands. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the International Life Sciences Institute, ILSI Europe, and a member of the board of trustees of ILSI Global.

Following the recent acquisition of the prepared media and diagnostics business of Medvet Science Pty Ltd, Oxoid Limited has expanded its range of microbiological tests for the food industry to include two new Diagnostic Reagents kits ­ one for Salmonella and another for Listeria species.

Physicists from the University of Liège in Belgium have succeeded in creating antibubbles (the exact opposite of bubbles) in one of Belgium's most famous exports ­ beer.

Lithuanian cheese manufacturer Rokiskio suris AB recently signed a contract worth E3m with APV, a business unit of Invensys, to provide a new, highly automated production facility at the company's Rokiskio plant.

Despite its maturity, participants in the E13.14billion European industrial food processing equipment market are confident of slow but steady revenue growth.

Strawberries are big business in Queensland, Australia. Just north of Brisbane, on Australia's east coast, Queensland grows about 350hectares of strawberries each year, mainly along the coastal strip from Caboolture to Gympie.

LINK is FMC FoodTech's innovative solution to increase the long-term process productivity of an entire processing line of coating equipment, conveyors, fryers, ovens and freezers.

The rapidly increasing usage of vitamins as supplements in foods has created a need to minimise the turnaround time of testing. Lennart Wahlström reports.

DSM Special Products has announced the launch of Purox S, the first sodium benzoate food preservative to guarantee 99.9% product purity, together with an excellent taste and odour profile. Purox S promises excellent flow control for easy processing and offers food processors a risk-free route to extended shelf-life.

The new range of CPS Disc Centrifuges for particle size analysis consists of 4 models for use with various materials. These include polymer latexes (aqueous) with any particle density, emulsions of oils and waxes, titanium dioxide, photographic emulsions, abrasives, food ingredients and inorganic fillers and pigments.

There are probably more barriers to internal collaboration in the pharmaceutical industry than any other. A new study highlights these barriers and offers some solutions. The result is that pharmaceutical companies can begin to develop and execute collaborative models that improve research effectiveness and enable increased innovation.

The life sciences are some of the fastest moving industry sectors around today. Technologies, techniques and strategies develop, change and move on at bewildering speed.

The International Conference on Harmonisation has been working for more than a decade to help forge guidelines that reduce costs for the pharmaceutical industry and improve patient safety. Its latest offering is crucial to contract research organisations as they pave the way for the submission of standard-format electronic marketing applications to regulatory bodies.

New technical literature is now available describing Porvair Science's range of Krystal clear-bottomed microplates.

Chemical safety has recently aroused a lot of debate. It is alarming that the effects of many chemicals on health and the environment are not yet known. The European Union has taken up this problem, and the objective of the current chemicals policy is to assess the risks of all existing and new chemicals, which would shift more of the responsibility for products safety to manufacturers. Tero Karhi reports.

The life sciences and their applications in medicine and pharmacy have been expanding at a tremendous rate in the past few years.

Dr David Griffin looks at a common laboratory problem and how to control it.

Sally Bullock reports on an innovative web-based delivery service aimed at speeding up the time-consuming and expensive process of clinical trials.

Structural Bioinformatics Inc(SBI) has developed a non-covalent small-molecule compound that inhibits the polymerisation of sickle cell disease-related hemoglobin in laboratory tests.