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	<title>News BASF-Products: Fine Chemicals</title>
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	  <title><![CDATA[European Food Safety Authority rates BASF’s LycoVit as safe]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3084</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has assessed BASF’s lycopene formulations marketed under the brand name LycoVit® as safe for use in foods and food supplements. In this way, the Authority is confirming that BASF’s synthetically produced LycoVit is an alternative to natural lycopene.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF enters a challenging 2008 with a record first quarter]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3073</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen, Germany - April 24, 2008 - The BASF Group has continued on its successful path in the first three months of 2008. Having posted a further record quarter, it is confident with regard to the coming months. First-quarter sales rose by almost 9 percent to €15.9 billion, while income from operations (EBIT) before special items increased by more than 11 percent compared with the same period of 2007 to almost €2.4 billion.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Food safety in the spotlight]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3035</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Where does the salmon fillet in the freezer come from? What's in chickenfeed, and possibly also in the barbecued chicken later on? Especially when it's about the food they eat, consumers want to know what they are buying and what ends up on their plate.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[New record year 2007 gives BASF confidence for 2008]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=3004</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen, Germany – February 21, 2008 – For BASF, 2007 was another record year. Thanks to organic growth and the very positive development of the acquired businesses, BASF posted sales of almost €58 billion and income from operations (EBIT) before special items of more than €7.6 billion in 2007.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Fortitech and BASF Dissolve Joint Venture for Human Nutrition Premixes]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2993</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Schenectady, NY, USA. Fortitech, Inc. and BASF SE have announced that the two companies dissolved their joint venture in the human nutrition premix marketplace. The agreement extends to all joint ventures throughout Europe, South America and Asia.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF transfers marketing and distribution rights of feed additive Formi to Addcon Nordic AS]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2973</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Ludwigshafen (Germany) – January 25, 2008 – BASF will transfer its Formi® feed additive business to Addcon Nordic AS. The move allows BASF’s Nutrition Ingredients business to concentrate their respective activities more on the supply of liquid organic acids.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF appoints Folker Ruchatz as head of its global custom synthesis business]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2966</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Evionnaz, Switzerland – January 18, 2008 – Effective January 2008 Dr. Folker Ruchatz has been given global responsibility for the custom synthesis business within BASF’s business unit Pharma Ingredients & Services. He has also been appointed managing director of BASF Orgamol Pharma Solutions SA. The company manufactures active ingredients and highly refined intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Carotenoid Lycopene from BASF blocks age-related prostate enlargement]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2961</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[Taking BASF lycopene capsules (LycoVit) prevents age-related pros-tate growth in men, concludes a clinical trial published in the January 2008 edition of “The Journal of Nutrition”.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[BASF to raise prices for pharma excipients]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2910</link> 
          <description><![CDATA[With immediate effect, BASF is raising its prices for pharma excipients worldwide by up to 9 percent. This product group includes binders, disintegrants, coatings, solvents and solubilizers for the production of pharmaceuticals.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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	  <title><![CDATA[Global image campaign for nutrition business]]></title>  							 
	  <link>http://media.basf.com/en/presse/mitteilungen/pm.htm?pmid=2901</link> 
          <description><![CDATA["We add quality to the world of nutrition" is the slogan the Nutrition Business Unit has been using since October in global advertising for the trade press and on its home page (<a href=http://www.nutrition.basf.com>www.nutrition.basf.com</a>). The campaign visuals show a stylized map of the world made up of BASF Human and Animal Nutrition products, thereby underlining BASF's global competence and high-end product portfolio in this area.]]></description> 
	 <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 
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