Archives for December 9, 2002

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Sales hit £10 million per week for Tesco online

Trail blazers in e-commerce UK retailer Tesco announced this week that for the first time ever booming online grocery sales have reached more than £10 million (€15.6m) in a week - an encouraging portent for yuletide spending.

Admiration for food down under

Food companies figure prominently in a new survey of the most admired companies in New Zealand. Out of the top ten places, five were devoted to food businesses, the NFO/Porter Novelli report reveals.

GM labelling: are there any winners?

'Impractical and unenforceable,' is how the European food and drink association, the CIAA, last week condemned the new EU legislation on the labelling of genetically modified organisms in food. We spoke with Dr Geraldine Schofield, technical adviser...

Yuletide treats given the all clear

As the season of mincepies and Christmas pudding approaches, the UK Food Standards Agency finds that dried fruit products - the star ingredient at Christmas time - are within the legal limits for a toxic substance called ochratoxin A.

Acne: modern diet to blame

Eating too much refined bread and cereal may be at the root of the teenage acne suffered by almost all adolescents in the developed world, according to a report in this month's New Scientist which reveals new US research.