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Netherlands-based DSM and Swiss chemicals group Roche said today they have received approval from the US Federal Trade Commission for the Roche vitamins deal. With final transfer of the business to DSM expected at the end of the month, industry will...
Scientists have identified significant antibacterial and antioxidant activity in two plant extracts, used traditionally in Ghana to heal wounds, they reported at a conference last week.
The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) says it has not issued an official health warning about the Atkins diet, contrary to media reports yesterday claiming that the government-backed agency had linked the diet to increased risk of obesity and cancer.
The board of directors of Martek Biosciences Corporation has announced the election of Steve Dubin as president of the microalgae-derived products company.
Nutraceuticals firm Technical Sourcing said today that it has acquired exclusive rights to an extensive portfolio of patents for delivery of Adenosine 5'-Triphosphate (ATP). The deal could see ATP's launch on the market as a new performance-enhancing...
Price competition in texturants put pressure on Danisco ingredients results for the first quarter of 2003/2004 but flavours and a long, hot summer went some way to boosting the underlying performance.
Natural and organic products business Ideasphere is to launch New Zealand-based A2 Corporation's 'heart healthy' A2 milk on the US market.
A popular Chinese sage herb has been shown to contain similar active ingredients to compounds used in Western medicine to treat Alzheimer's disease.
UK-based Vibrant Life is to market a reformulated version of the established US bone health supplement CalMagFizz, it revealed at the Natural Trade Show in the UK last week.
Farmers in southern Brazil are urging the government to pass an emergency to allow use of GMO soybeans in the coming 2003-04 season (October-September), reports the American Soybean Association this week.
Netherlands-based DSM and the world's second vitamin maker Roche have received permission from the Federal Trade Commission to go ahead with the Roche Vitamins deal. Final transfer of the business to DSM is expected at the end of the month.
A bumper cocoa harvest for Ghana has pushed the country into the number two global producer slot, behind the Ivory Coast and ahead of Brazil. Fresh figures from the West African country show farmers pulled in more than 500,000 tons of the commodity.
Only months after buying Unilever's Indian fats business Hindustan Lever, US agri-giant Bunge carves deeper into the Indian oils market acquiring the India-based assets of private edible oils company Prestige Foods this week.