Dutch industry aims for 100% responsible soy by 2015
Members of the Dutch food industry have jointly announced an intention to move towards responsibly produced soy sourcing by 2015.
Archives for December 19, 2011
Kalahari tribe throws weight at Unilever over hoodia rejection
South Africa’s San people say food giant Unilever was working off inaccurate research data when it decided to bin a €20m investment in hoodia gordonii, the Kalahari cactus the San have used for centuries to curb hunger pangs.
NBTY: Ester-C sales are going from strength to strength
Sales of NBTY’s Ester-C vitamin C supplements surged 18% in the 13 weeks to October 29 within a category that was otherwise pretty flat, bosses have revealed.
Herbalife: Belgian court judgment contains factual errors
Direct selling giant Herbalife says it will appeal last month’s ruling in a commercial court in Brussels stating it had violated Belgian law on unfair commercial practices.
Dispatches from FIE 2011
Clinical trial design in the new EU health claims regime: “Now we have to work on the borderline”
How to demonstrate health benefits among healthy human beings? That is the challenge new European Union health claim laws have set contract research organisations (CROs) and others involved in trial design. A tough challenge yes, but not an...