Archives for May 5, 2004

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Good start for newly focused Numico

The sale of its supplements business GNC late last year and a new focus on baby food and clinical nutrition is already paying off for Dutch group Numico, which this week announced better-than-expected first quarter results.

FDA will continue safety campaign, says official

The industry can expect sustained scrutiny of the safety of their products, warned an FDA official at SupplySide yesterday, and while the agency is not expecting to take an ephedra-type action in the near future, it has numerous ingredients on its radar.

Endomatrix launch asian subsidiary

Endomatrix, the makers of dietary supplement Provasca, announced it had launched an asian subsidiary in Singapore. The move aims to capitalize on research and development opportunities in the asia-pacific market particularly in Singapore's thriving...

Acquisition trails continues in China for Bio-One

Continuing an agressive acquisition programme nutritional supplements firm Bio-One will expand further in China with a third acquisition in the region buying a 51 per cent stake in a Chinese herbal medicine firm in the Hebei Province heralding new...

DHA supplements boost breast-fed children - study

Children whose mothers were given a does of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for the first four months of breastfeeding were found to perform better in attention tests than those whose mothers were not, according to research sponsored by Martek, a US-based...