The battle for DSHEA
The FDA's Task Force on Consumer Health Information for Better Nutrition has established a public docket to receive views and comments on issues such as health claims, from interested stakeholders.
Archives for April 13, 2003
Enterprise's quest for sweet success
Sweet Success Enterprises continues preparations for the spring 2003 re-launch of its Sweet Success diet meal replacement beverage with the announcement of crucial agreements with key vendors.
Scientists unravel wheat genome
Entente cordiale between leaders in France and Great Britain may well have been strained in recent weeks over the war in Iraq, but elsewhere, in laboratories in the UK and France, scientists have shown a united front in their aim to construct the...
Lallemand opens yeast production unit
Canadian firm Lallemand is to complete its new yeast plant in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, allowing it to meet growing demand for yeast-based ingredients.
New tools to toxic bacteria
New methods for the detection of enterotoxins from Bacillus cereus have been developed by European scientists. The discovery paves the way for the identification of genes responsible for the production of emetic toxins (vomiting toxins).
Up the calcium to boost weight loss?
Girls who consume more calcium tend to weigh less and have lower body fat than those with low calcium consumption, suggest new findings presented last week.
The B vitamin painkiller
A combination of B vitamins has been found to reduce the severity of chronic pain in rats. The new research suggests that relief from chronic pain, which affects millions every year, could be provided in the form of vitamin tablets.
Vitamins get thumbs-up from Canadians
More than three-quarters of Canadians regularly taking vitamin supplements think they are having a moderate to strong impacton their overall health.