Archives for April 24, 2003

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Gathering evidence for chromium picolinate

A recent conference on chromium picolinate highlighted the evidence backing the use of chromium in glucose control for people with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, suggests chromium maker Nutrition 21.

Acrylamide, one year on

Risk assessors from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) repeated their call for the levels of acrylamide in foods to be reduced as far and as quickly as possible. Speaking one year after the Swedish National Food Administration...

Tough quarter for flavour company

Lower sales volumes and higher selling expenses resulted in a drop in net sales for the first quarter ended 31 March 2003 for US company Technology Flavors & Fragrances (TFF).

Nautilus launches silver-enhanced water

Nautilus Mineral Waters of America has introduced a bottled water with added colloidal silver for tourists to protect against traveler's diarrhea.

New B vitamin discovered in Japan

Japanese researchers have discovered a new vitamin that has an important role in immune response and fertility in mice. The chemical, pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), may have a similar function in humans, they said.