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Chemistry World December 17, 2013 James Urquhart	Controversial sweetener declared safe The low-calorie artificial sweetener aspartame and its breakdown products have been given the all-clear for human consumption once more by the European Food Safety Authority.
Chemistry World December 11, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Lanzatech expands waste-to-chemicals range Waste-to-chemicals expert Lanzatech has partnered with German chemical company Evonik to develop sustainable routes to specialty polymer precursors.
Chemistry World December 6, 2013 Emily James	Dow shakes out chlorine business Dow Chemical has unveiled plans to sell its chlorine business assets -- worth a total of $5 billion in annual revenue -- to make room for future spending.
Chemistry World December 5, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Merck KGaA snaps up electronic materials specialist The speciality chemicals arm of Merck KGaA has agreed to buy out AZ Electronic Materials for 1.6 billion pounds in cash.
Chemistry World December 4, 2013 Ned Stafford	Controversial GM maize cancer link paper retracted A highly controversial paper published last year on a genetically modified maize has been retracted by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology after the authors refused to voluntarily withdraw the paper.
Chemistry World November 28, 2013 Andy Extance	Base metal catalysts strike hydrogenation gold Three teams have shown that chemists need not rely only on expensive and toxic precious metal catalysts for hydrogenation -- they've found complementary alternatives based on cheap, abundant and safer transition metals.
Chemistry World November 27, 2013	Reach is a big trade barrier, say US manufacturers The EU's Reach (registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals) regulation is the biggest trade obstacle for America's small and medium-sized chemical manufacturers.
Chemistry World November 22, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	DSM to spin out pharma unit Specialty chemicals producer DSM has agreed a deal with private equity firm JLL to spin out its pharmaceuticals division into a new company.
Chemistry World November 13, 2013 Andy Extance	Europe's manufacturing edge not leaking away There is no evidence that Europe's emissions trading scheme has driven production of goods reliant on fossil fuels, like chemicals, elsewhere.
Chemistry World November 8, 2013 Emily James	Japanese chemicals show signs of recovery The Japanese chemicals sector is showing signs of recovery, owing to reconstruction demand in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, as well as the government's bold new monetary and spending policies.
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