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A new organic programme in the US has lifted sales of organic food and drink while western Europe saw growth slowing down on 2002 figures. New report predicts drop in growth for industrialised world, but acceleration in developing countries.
UK sweeteners and starch group Tate & Lyle has completed the sale of its monosodium glutamate (MSG) production unit in France to Japanese seasonings company Ajinomoto.
Canada-based Bio-Lab has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers through false and unsubstantiated advertising of its 'Quick Slim Fat Blocker' and 'Cellu-Fight' products.
Hormel Foods is to buy nutritional ingredients firm Century Foods International, in a $115 million cash transaction, it said yesterday. Hormel is seeking to strengthen its position in the growing specialty foods segment.
Fortifying foods with folic acid may not reduce the incidence of Down's syndrome, say University of Toronto researchers, although they suggest we may to need to wait for the next generation of women to give birth before the their findings are confirmed.
A mother's diet can alter her offspring's development to such an extent that it changes the baby's characteristics for life, and potentially that of future generations, say researchers who have found that nutrition can alter gene expression to affect...
Increasing intake of vitamin C may be able to help prevent stomach cancer, report researchers this week. A study found low levels of the vitamin in blood samples to be associated with higher chances of Helicobacter pylori infection, the bacteria...