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The UK's National Association of Health Stores is hoping to hear this week that it can start its High Court action against the Medicines Control Agency and the Food Standards Agency concerning the ban on the herbal remedy kava-kava.
Swedish probiotics firm BioGaia is to develop a new variation of its innovative LifeTop straw for one of China's largest dairies, it announced this week.
Italian pharmaceutical company sigma-tau has developed a new compound which helps to slow down and improve the symptoms caused by Age-related Macular Disease (AMD).
Cereal bar maker ZonePerfect Nutrition reported another leap in gross sales revenues for the third quarter, up 89 per cent on last year's same period to $25.5 million.
Even small restrictions in a mother's nutrition around the time of conception can lead to premature births and long-term adverse health effects for the offspring, finds an international study.
The US Food and Drug Administration has released a statement on the National Academy of Sciences' report, 'Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food'. The report has been received as a reinforcement of the FDA's progress in reducing and preventing...
Substituting sesame oil for other cooking oils appears to help reduce high blood pressure and lower the amount of medication needed to control hypertension, Indian researchers reported in the US yesterday.
Novis, a European online publisher of global industry and science news for the food and beverage industries, has undertaken a major partnership with 15 leading international market report publishers. This agreement provides Novis' website users access...
The global economic downturn marked 2003 first quarter results for Dutch life science company DSM, but strong autonomous volume growth boosted figures to higher than 2002.
A new mouse study suggests fasting every other day can help fend off diabetes and protect brain neurons as well as or better than either vigorous exercise or caloric restriction.