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Weight-loss drugs fuel boom for firms that fill syringes

By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – Contract drug manufacturers seeking to tap into the booming market for weight-loss drugs are investing billions of dollars to expand or build factories that fill the…

October 9, 2023

Analysis-Fall of the zombies? Why corporate failures could surge in 2024

By Sinead Cruise and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – Debt-laden companies across Europe, Middle East and Africa face a $500 billion refinancing scramble in the first half of 2024, a challenge that…

October 6, 2023

Ciba-Geigy Plume Still Active and Polluting Nearby Ground Water EPA Reveals

Toms River, NJ – Toxic waste from decades ago continues polluting water tables in Toms River according to EPA Remedial Project Manager Diane Salkie. Salkie, in a recent meeting, showed the size…

October 5, 2023

Court Enforces Cleanup of Decades-Old Gasoline Spill at Union City Service Center

UNION CITY, NJ – The New Jersey Attorney General and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) are taking legal action to enforce two previous DEP orders for the cleanup of a 1990…

September 28, 2023

British Petroleum to Clean Up Contaminated Monk’s Amoco Site in Camden

CAMDEN, NJ – A settlement in June 2023 between the New Jersey Attorney General, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and Monk’s Amoco has resolved a 2018 case concerning hazardous leaks from…

September 28, 2023

DEP Targets Polluters in Vulnerable Communities to Correct Climate Inequities

TRENTON, NJ – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced several legal actions and accomplishments targeting polluters, aiming to correct past inequities in…

September 28, 2023

Cough syrup deaths overseas prompt US crackdown on toxic testing

(Reuters) – The U.S. FDA is cracking down on lax testing practices by dozens of makers of healthcare products following hundreds of deaths overseas from contaminated cough syrups, a Reuters review of…

September 26, 2023

Is Your Cough Syrup Deadly? FDA Cracks Down After Surge in Overdose Deaths

NEW YORK, NY – A surge in global deaths linked to contaminated cough syrups has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to tighten scrutiny on healthcare product manufacturers. A Reuters…

September 26, 2023

NASA asteroid sample parachutes safely onto Utah desert

By Steve Gorman and Maria Caspani (Reuters) -A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday and…

September 25, 2023

U.S. FDA found lapses at Novo’s main U.S. factory in May 2022 -report

By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. drug regulators issued a report detailing quality control lapses at Novo Nordisk’s main factory in North America as early as May last year, according to the…

September 21, 2023

Explainer-RTX engine snag puts spotlight on aerospace quality issues

By Pratyush Thakur (Reuters) – Aerospace giant RTX Corp on Monday told airlines hundreds of their Airbus jets would be grounded at any one time in coming years to check for a…

September 14, 2023

Goa state warns Abbott India on antacid Digene licence suspension

By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – India’s Goa state has warned the local unit of Abbott Laboratories it plans to suspend the manufacturing licence of its antacid medicine after inspectors flagged…

September 14, 2023

Kremlin: US answerable for health risk from giving Kyiv depleted uranium shells

(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that the United States would have to answer for the “very sad consequences” of its decision to provide depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine. The Pentagon…

September 7, 2023

3M’s $10.3 billion PFAS settlement gets preliminary approval

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -3M on Tuesday secured preliminary approval for a $10.3 billion deal resolving claims by U.S. public water providers that the company polluted drinking water with toxic chemicals, less…

August 30, 2023

US FDA warns 3 baby formula makers to correct manufacturing process controls

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued warnings to three infant formula makers to correct their manufacturing processes to better catch bacterial contamination, but added it does not expect…

August 30, 2023

Some Tampa gas pumps shuttered as Hurricane Idalia approaches

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – With Hurricane Idalia approaching, Florida authorities said on Tuesday that 17 Tampa-area gas stations supplied by Citgo Petroleum have been ordered to stop the sale of…

August 29, 2023

Metal drums similar to the ones removed from the Ciba Geigy superfund site in Toms River - Stock Photo.

Critics Blast ‘Sweet Deal’ for Ciba-Geigy After Decades of Horror for Toms River Residents

Toms River, NJ – Senator Jim Holzapfel and Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and John Catalano announced their continued opposition to the settlement between the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and BASF, the current…

August 25, 2023

Charles River Lab signs joint agreement for protection of crabs used in medical tests

(Reuters) – Charles River Laboratories has signed a joint agreement with four entities to enhance protections in South Carolina for horseshoe crabs and a bird that feeds on their eggs, they said…

August 25, 2023

In China, Fukushima discharge met with bans, panic buying and wariness

By Casey Hall and Albee Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese consumers stayed away from sea food stalls and rushed to stock up on salt following Beijing’s condemnation of Japan’s release on Thursday of…

August 25, 2023

Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood

By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a polarising move that prompted China to…

August 24, 2023

China’s ban on Japanese seafood has more political than economic heft

By Katya Golubkova and Dominique Patton TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) – China may be Japan’s top seafood export market but marine products make up less than 1% of Tokyo’s global trade, which is dominated…

August 24, 2023

Protests mount in South Korea over Japan’s plan to release Fukushima water

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s majority opposition party and civic groups around the country stepped up protests on Wednesday against Japan’s plan to release water from the Fukushima nuclear plant…

August 23, 2023

Phil Murphy’s Ciba-Geigy Deal Likely Heading to Court

TOMS RIVER, NJ – Senator Jim Holzapfel, Assemblyman Greg McGuckin, and Assemblyman John Catalano have voiced their steadfast opposition to the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) settlement with BASF, the current owners…

August 22, 2023

Biden’s EPA Pledges To Expand Enforcement To Tackle ‘Existential Threat Of Climate Change’

Biden’s EPA Pledges To Expand Enforcement To Tackle ‘Existential Threat Of Climate Change’ Lillian Tweten on August 18, 2023 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday that it will use criminal…

August 18, 2023

CBP agriculture specialists discover first-in-nation pest in San Diego

OTAY MESA, Calif., – U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists assigned to the Otay Mesa cargo facility intercepted a rare pest while inspecting a cargo shipment on July 19 when a…

August 18, 2023

contamination - Page 5

Weight-loss drugs fuel boom for firms that fill syringes

Analysis-Fall of the zombies? Why corporate failures could surge in 2024

Ciba-Geigy Plume Still Active and Polluting Nearby Ground Water EPA Reveals

Court Enforces Cleanup of Decades-Old Gasoline Spill at Union City Service Center

British Petroleum to Clean Up Contaminated Monk’s Amoco Site in Camden

DEP Targets Polluters in Vulnerable Communities to Correct Climate Inequities

Cough syrup deaths overseas prompt US crackdown on toxic testing

Is Your Cough Syrup Deadly? FDA Cracks Down After Surge in Overdose Deaths

NASA asteroid sample parachutes safely onto Utah desert

U.S. FDA found lapses at Novo’s main U.S. factory in May 2022 -report

Explainer-RTX engine snag puts spotlight on aerospace quality issues

Goa state warns Abbott India on antacid Digene licence suspension

Kremlin: US answerable for health risk from giving Kyiv depleted uranium shells

3M’s $10.3 billion PFAS settlement gets preliminary approval

US FDA warns 3 baby formula makers to correct manufacturing process controls

Some Tampa gas pumps shuttered as Hurricane Idalia approaches

Critics Blast ‘Sweet Deal’ for Ciba-Geigy After Decades of Horror for Toms River Residents

Charles River Lab signs joint agreement for protection of crabs used in medical tests

In China, Fukushima discharge met with bans, panic buying and wariness

Fukushima wastewater released into the ocean, China bans all Japanese seafood

China’s ban on Japanese seafood has more political than economic heft

Protests mount in South Korea over Japan’s plan to release Fukushima water

Phil Murphy’s Ciba-Geigy Deal Likely Heading to Court

CBP agriculture specialists discover first-in-nation pest in San Diego

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