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A cartoon which was created to encourage British children to eat more fruit and vegetables is to become the focus of a new Department of Health campaign, reports BBC Online.Trials have shown that the cartoon prompted a dramatic increase in children's...
Organic milk producers in the UK are to seek a new consumer sector with "a paler shade of green" to multiply their current one per cent share of the £3 billion (€4.85bn) annual milk market by five, reports The Scotsman.
A British study has found that the global market for performance foods and drinks is now worth in excess of $11billion (€12.5bn), and is dominated by drinks, which account for over 90 per cent of total sales.
Many obese children and adolescents have impaired glucosetolerance, a condition that often appears before thedevelopment of type 2 diabetes, according to researchersfrom the US.
Swiss fine chemical company, Lonza, this week reported an increase in 2001 group sales to CHF1,868 (€1,276m), up 9.7 per cent from the previous year.
Pain Therapeutics, a US-based medical research company, is to develop two new opioid painkillers, OxyTrex and MorViva, both of which it claims do not lead to the tolerance and dependance associated with other opioid painkillers.
Despite previous warnings, the latest research suggests that pregnant women can maintain a moderate caffeine intake without raising the chances of low birth-weight.