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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.
The popular low-carbohydrate, high-fat Atkins diet, causing waves on both sides of the Atlantic, may also have a role in preventing seizures in children with epilepsy, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in the US.
MEPs last week voted through amendments to the traditional herbal medicinal products directive (THMPD) that will prevent it from regulating herbal products sold under food law.
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...
The debate over which plant has the most antioxidants continues, with new research showing black beans are a rich but overlooked source of antioxidants equal to fruits like grapes, apples and cranberries.
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...
People with persistent, non-specific musculoskeletal pain should be screened regularly for vitamin D deficiency, report authors of the leading study in this week's Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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.
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.
Health food stores in New Zealand will today 'black out' products threatened by the government's plans to regulate supplements under a joint authority with Australia.
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.
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.