Archives for December 10, 2003

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PURAC absorbs AVEBE subsidiary

Dutch food ingredients and confectionery multinational CSM continues its strategy to expand worldwide activities in the food and pharmaceutical markets with the recent announcement that it has completed the acquisition of the gluconic acid derivatives...

Bausch & Lomb gets patent for Ocuvite

The leading US eye health supplement, made by Bausch & Lomb, gained a US patent this week, prompting the company to launch suits against four of its competitors.

Wake-up call for clinicians

A new study to come out of Canada counters the notion that complementary medicine is for the most part popular with younger people and women.

FTC clamps down on deceptive weight-loss claims

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has drawn up a set of guidelines to assist the media in the voluntary screening of 'too good to be true' weight loss products and supplements.

Is calcium involved in taste transfer?

New research into the mysterious domain of taste by a US neuroscientist suggests that calcium plays a key role in the detection of tastes by taste cells in the tongue.

Cognis meets demand for sterols

Cognis Nutrition and Health has added a new vegetable sterol esters ingredient to its product range. The company, which launched the product for the US market at the SupplySide West tradeshow last week, said vegetable sterol esters are in strong...

SourceOne to market cholesterol-lowering Sytrinol

US-based SourceOne Global Partners has established a strategic alliance with Seltzer Nutritional Technologies (SNT), a division of Seltzer Chemicals, for its patented cholesterol-lowering product Sytrinol.