{"id":17002,"date":"2013-08-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/farmaci-la-gran-bretagna-lancia-allarme-metalli-pesanti-in-prodotti-naturali-cinesi\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T22:30:00","slug":"farmaci-la-gran-bretagna-lancia-allarme-metalli-pesanti-in-prodotti-naturali-cinesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/farmaci-la-gran-bretagna-lancia-allarme-metalli-pesanti-in-prodotti-naturali-cinesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines: Britain raises alarm heavy metals in Chinese natural products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">The summary of the report <i>Firepower Index<\/i> (transl. <i>Firepower index<\/i>), published in the Herald Online and signed by the same <b>Ernst &amp; Young<\/b>, a global tax and financial advisory firm for large companies, says it clearly: <b>Big Pharma<\/b>, i.e. the small group of large companies that share the world pharmaceutical market (Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo SmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Hoffmann-La Roche\u2026), suffers a small setback and, to reduce the negative growth gap and ensure profits for shareholders, will have to focus more on operations <b>merger and acquisitions<\/b>with possible employment repercussions.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">A process that will put pressure on the historical groups, which would have seen their resources reduced \u2013 so to speak \u2013 and instead increased competition from specialized pharmaceutical companies and the sector linked to <b>biotechnology<\/b>. A context of greater competition for the 16 major pharmaceutical companies on the planet (American, European, Japanese): the by now consolidated &quot;flat&quot; trend of sales in the so-called &quot;mature markets&quot; would in fact be added to a slowdown in those in emerging markets. The <b>growth gap<\/b> between the forecasts of IMS Health (financial analysis company specializing in the sector) for the global drug market and the estimates of analysts say that, according to Ernst &amp; Young, over the next 3 years for Big Pharma there will be about <b>100 billion dollars<\/b> of turnover just to keep up with the growth of the world market. <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">Quite a bummer, considering that <i>Firepower Index<\/i> claims that the <b>financial capacity<\/b> of Big Pharma to conduct M&amp;A transactions (i.e <i>mergers and acquisitions<\/i>, i.e. mergers and acquisitions) decreased by 23% between 2006 and 2012. In the same period, the &quot;financial firepower&quot; of the large biotech competitors increased by 61%, while that of <b>specialized pharmaceutical companies<\/b> at least by 20%: &quot;As a result of these changes, Big Pharma&#039;s share of the combined purchasing power for these three segments dropped from 85% in 2006 to 75% in 2012.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">15 January 2013 \u2013<b> <\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #002060; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: IT\">values<\/span><\/b><\/font><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: IT\">.it<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT\"><font size=\"3\">Corrado Fontana<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La sintesi del rapporto Firepower Index (trad. Indice della potenza di fuoco), pubblicata sull&rsquo;Herald Online e firmata dalla stessa Ernst &amp; Young, societ&agrave; globale di consulenza fiscale e finanziaria per le grandi compagnie, lo dice chiaramente: Big Pharma, cio&egrave; il gruppo ristretto delle grandi aziende che si spartiscono il mercato farmaceutico mondiale (Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}