Biodegradable polymers have a healthy future, with Europe set to lead the growth in demand.
A complete ban on all types of plastics could cause more damage to the planet than their continued use.
'Embracing digitisation from start to end’ could help to reduce costs and improve productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, says expert.
‘Today’s cryptography is essentially broken once a quantum computer is built,’ according to Vadim Lyubashevsky, a cryptographer at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland.
Scientists back position paper that warns of the innovation limitations as a result of the EU GM ban.
EU registration dossiers needed for the sale of a plant protection product (PPP) in the EU are now ‘the largest and most expensive in the world,’ said Michael Carroll of Arysta Life Science, speaking at the BCPC Congress for crop protection experts in Brighton in November 2018.
Strict EU regulations mean that UK farmers have access to fewer herbicides and pesticides than many of their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
Bayer is to divest its animal health business as a part of a major restructuring programme designed to strengthen its life science businesses.
The government’s preferred Brexit ‘deal’ could see the UK move to a transitional implementation period from 29 March 2019 to 31 December 2020. During this transitional period, EU law would continue to apply as set out in the terms of the withdrawal agreement, but the UK would no longer have direct input into EU policymaking.