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The world's biggest vitamin and supplements maker Numico is the latest company this week to post a slide in first-half profits well below expectations. The company was severely hit by weak US vitamin sales with the Rexall Sundown unit seeing sales...
Alternativa Natural is to market the natural antioxidant Origanox, produced by RAD Natural Technologies, as a dietary supplement available for the health, food and cosmeceutical industries.
The speciality chemicals business has signed an agreement with Natural, giving it worldwide marketing and manufacturing rights for two of Natural's CLA brands.
BSP Pharma, a joint venture between Aarhus Oliefabrik and pharmaceutical company Astion, has reported strong results in pre-clinical trials on its shea nut oil-based treatments.
The US Food and Drug Administration calls for a criminal investigation into Metabolife over the safety of some of the company's ephedra-based diet products.
A long-term study is one of the first to analyse the link between diet and heart disease in women, rather than grouping both women and men together. The research is published in this week's European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.