Policy & Regulation

At the beginning of May, the fertilizer market entered another situation. India's bidding at the end of April, the potash fertilizer contract that was delayed for more than a year was also signed on April 30.

• fertilizer
• Market

At present, the overall consumer confidence in the domestic terminal market is sluggish, and consumption capacity is always limited.

• PTA
• market
• analysis

Recently, the European Union issued Regulation (EU) 2020/616 to update and approve the active substance metalaxyl-M.

• EU
• metalaxyl-M

In the mask industry chain, the seesaw relationship between upstream polypropylene companies and midstream meltblown companies is changing.

• Mask
• industry chain
• Polypropylene

Since mid-April, the market demand has significantly weakened, and some traders have begun to reduce prices and shipments. At the same time, some factories, such as Tianxin and Xinfa, have ex-factory prices A slight decline.

• vitamin
• Feed Additives

AMRI, the US pharmaceutical research and development and manufacturing contractor, said it has obtained an emergency authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• AMRI
• hydroxychloroquine sulfate
• COVID-19

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are currently approved for the treatment of malaria and certain autoimmune diseases.

• chloroquine
• hydroxychloroquine

The first international safety standard for plastic and rubber machinery, the injection molding machine ISO 20430, was officially released in April this year, providing a globally uniform standard for machine manufacturers.

• plastics
• rubber
• standard
• International

The new coronavirus epidemic has affected the delivery cycle of some natural pigment and flavor manufacturers.

• flavor
• epidemic

Markets and Markets market data show that from 2019, the CAGR of the plant protein market is expected to grow at a rate of 14.0%, and will reach a value of $ 40.6 billion by 2025.

• broad bean
• protein
• market

Recently, Neurocrine Biosciences announced that the US FDA has approved Opicapone (trade name Ongentys®) as an adjuvant therapy for levodopa / carbidopa to treat patients with Parkinson's disease who have experienced an "off" period.

• FDA
• Parkinson
• Opicapone

Recently, with the alleviation of the epidemic, the provincial and municipal regulatory authorities across the country have successively released the cosmetics sampling inspection plan for 2020.

• cosmetic
• inspection

On April 27th, futures contracts for all spices in India (except coriander seeds) fell at the close. The country's traders said that the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange's fennel seed contract closed lower, but the reason is unknown

• spices
• India
• outlook

Although the domestic maintenance period is at the peak in the second quarter, there is a high probability that import volume will appear from May to June, and the PE import dependency will be 48%.

• Polyethylene
• demand
• market

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that after allowing pharmacists and outsourced sites to re-equip 13 medicines used to treat patients using ventilators during the new crown epidemic

• propofol
• FDA
• package

According to Chinese customs data, China ’s total imports of petroleum resin in January 2020 were 39.157 million tons, a decrease of 24% from the previous month and a decrease of 22.39% from the same period last year.

• petroleum resin
• import
• export

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) New Crown Task Force (COVID-ETF) warns that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have not proven effective in treating new coronary pneumonia, and their side effects can be fatal.

• EMA
• COVID-19
• chloroquine

Israeli natural nutrition company TriNutra's cold-pressed black seed oil ThymoQuin has received the General Recognized Safety (GRAS) certification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

• TriNutra
• black seed oil
• FDA

GB 30981-2020 "Limits of Hazardous Substances in Industrial Protective Coatings" standard will replace the national standard GB 30981-2014.

• Painting&Coating
• standards

Recently, the Israeli raw material supplier Wavelength Pharmaceuticals has substantially increased the production of APIs for the treatment of patients with severe respiratory diseases. Due to the new global epidemic situation, the demand for Midazolam

• API
• Demand
• Expand