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| Today's Top Story |  |  | | - BIO backs Fla. bill restricting biosimilar substitutions
BIO praised a Florida Senate committee for passing a bill that would require pharmacists to notify physicians when a biosimilar drug was substituted for a brand-name biologic. S.B. 732 has a five-year sunset clause like the law signed in Virginia last month. "Biosimilars are not generics. Even slight changes to a biologic drug can change its properties entirely. Unlike conventional generic medicines, biosimilars are not the same as the drugs they seek to substitute," the BIO statement said. Drug Store News (4/4)       | Health Care & Policy | | | | - Enlivex's GVHD drug Apocell wins orphan status from FDA
The FDA has granted orphan-drug designation to Enlivex Therapeutics' Apocell, an experimental drug for graft-versus-host disease. The designation will give the drug seven years of market exclusivity and "significant regulatory easements, which we believe will shorten marketing approval of the drug in the US, reducing costs," Enlivex CEO Alon Moran said. Globes (Israel) (4/3) - GSK's vasculitis drug enters late-stage trial
GlaxoSmithKline initiated a late-stage trial to assess the safety and efficacy of Benlysta, or belimumab, in combination with azathioprine, in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive vasculitis. Benlysta has already been approved in the U.S. and Europe as an add-on treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus. Pharmaceutical Business Review Online (4/4) | Company & Financial News | | | | - Supermarket's biotech labeling initiative spreads misperception
 Whole Foods Market's decision to label all biotech food in its stores would not only raise grocery prices, it would also spread misperceptions that biotech foods are not safe and nutritious to eat, Truth About Trade & Technology board member Ted Sheely writes in this commentary. Studies carried out by various groups and agencies including the American Medical Association and the FDA concluded that biotech foods are safe to eat, and there's no nutritional difference between biotech and non-biotech foods, Sheely writes. Western Farm Press (4/4)  | Two courses in four days at MIT Sloan Exec Ed
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 | Industrial & Environmental | | | | - Filing deadline for biodiesel mixture payments is moved to July 1
The IRS set July 1 as the new filing deadline of payments for biodiesel mixtures and alternative fuels used or sold in 2012. The deadline was moved in line with the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which extended through 2013 the alternative fuels credit, the cellulosic biofuel producer credit, the biodiesel mixture credit, the alternative fuel mixtures credit and the refundable excise tax credit for biodiesel mixtures and alternative fuels. BiodieselMagazine.com (4/4)  | |  | | The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS)
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| News from BIO | | | | - Win an Apple TV, $100 Visa gift card, Keurig coffee system ...
... and other valuable prizes at the BIO International Convention, April 22-25 in Chicago. Try your luck at the raffle at the BIO Partner Pavilion, Booth No. 3651, where you can win great prizes as well as learn how your company can save money through the BIO Business Solutions cost-savings program. Visit Booth #3651 to collect your raffle card, then follow the instructions to be eligible for the raffle drawing. And return from the Convention with ways to save your company money on products and services through the BIO Business Solutions program.
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