Survey finds dangerous toys on store shelves

CHEM Trust is a UK registered charity that works at EU, UK and International levels to prevent man-made chemicals from causing long term damage to wildlife or humans, by ensuring that chemicals which cause harm are substituted with safer alternatives. CHEM Trust has been running since 2007, and work closely with NGOs & academics in European &am...

ASTM International’s cannabis committee (D37) is working to develop a voluntary standardized practice (WK63546) that will outline how producers can respond when products need to be recalled or removed from the market.ASTM International member Cary Black, a consultant at Orion GMP, notes that many cannabis products are designed for human consu...

Harvard Business School's Michael E. Porter introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, "Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance," in 1985.  In his book he writes:"Competitive advantage cannot be understood by looking at a firm as a whole," Porter wrote. "It stems from the many discrete activities a firm pe...

Indian public health professionals, consumer rights groups and villagers affected by pharmaceutical industry pollution have called upon the European Commission (EC) to urgently tackle the 'grave environmental and human health crisis' unfolding due to the production of drugs in the country. In a letter to the President and Vice-President of the...

Covered with storage tanks, smoke stacks, and holding pools, the old Chambers Works manufacturing site in southern New Jersey is an eyesore. From the bridge crossing the Delaware River, the industrial zone looks like a burnt patch, a brown splotch in the otherwise green of the river’s eastern shore. But the real problem with Chambers Works is...