Pharma meets food as science merges
In a bid to improve the delivery of micronutrients as supplements in processed foods US company BioDelivery Sciences International has initiated a collaboration project with a food processor in the United States.
Archives for July 24, 2002
Snow Brand execs deny fraud
Two former executives of the now-defunct Snow Brand Foods Co. pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of fraudulently obtaining some 200 million yen (€1.7m) by falsely labelling meat to receive subsidies under a government beef buyback program,...
Grains prevent bioavailability of cadmium?
Insufficient intake of minerals iron, zinc and calcium in the diet could lead to unhealthy increases in cadmium uptake in the kidney and liver, according to scientists in the US.
Scientists pinpoint short rice gene
Research illuminating the complexities of the celebrated double helix inherent to all living organisms, DNA, took a further step forward this week when a team of scientists in Australia claimed have isolated the gene that produces the shorter, more...
ADM: profits fall for soy operations
Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) on Wednesday said quarterly earnings doubled due to payments from an antitrust suit, but profits from its core soybean and corn processing operations fell.