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The decision by the Canadian government to set up a Natural Health Products Directorate to further regulate the country's natural health product (NHP) market has been called "a waste of time and money" in a new study released by The Fraser Institute,...
Dallas-based Access Pharmaceuticals has acquired the targeted therapeutic technology of Biotech Australia, giving it access to the patents to three targeted therapeutics.
Yesterday we reported on new evidence supporting the claim that the antioxidant properties of tea can be good for maintaining blood flow, but research presented at the same Nutrition Week conference shows that these properties vary greatly between...
Persuading children to eat healthily may not be as difficult as was once feared. New research from the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) in the UK has shown that children as young as seven are aware of the need for a balanced diet, and that...
Southern Europe accounts for 39 per cent of the organic farmland in the European Union yet its organic meat and dairy sector is the most underdeveloped in Europe, according to recent research by Organic Monitor.
Eating lots of processed meat can increase the risk of type II diabetes by around 50 per cent in men, according to a study published in the journal Diabetes Care.
The US Federal Trade Commission has settled with Kris Pletschke, a marketer of dietary supplements which he claimed could cure hundreds of diseases.
Canadian group Forbes Medi-Tech, a producer of cholesterol-lowering food ingredients, has been approached by Novartis Consumer Health to help it find a buyer for the Take Heart line of food products enriched with Forbes' Reducol.
The European Commission has unveiled a sweeping reform of food safety legislation, giving itself more powers to take emergency steps in crises such as the dioxin poisoning scare.