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On a gloomy reading of recent trends, the European Union may never be able to deliver the rising prosperity that is its chief justification. The best hope is a stroke of luck with innovation.
The European Commission has broken with precedent by sponsoring an independent scientific conference on the role of growth-promoting substances in animal husbandry.
New items on the market this issue include an uninterruptible power supply, a biomedical interlaboratory service, an electrochemistry labstation, scientific cameras, capillary electrophoresis accessories and solvent handling equipment.
