Archives for February 25, 2003

← 2003

Heart of the cholesterol problem

More heart healthy food products could be hitting the shelves soon following the claim from US healthy ingredients company Cargill Health & Food Technologies that it has helped trigger a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action that will expand...

Eggs to beat cancer?It's no 'yolk'.

Women who eat more eggs as teenagers may be less likely to develop breast cancer later on, say researchers at Harvard University. They also found that butter tended to raise the risk of the disease while people who use vegetable oil instead reduce the...

Danish industry set to grow

Denmark's food and drink manufacturing companies are expected to be the star performers in that country's economy this year, with growth of between 6-10 per cent. The growth will come from new product launches and international expansion.

Advice on bioterrorism management

A new system designed to use companies' own employees as soldiers in the frontline in the war on bioterrorism has been created by two US consultancies.

Let up for Piveg

Mexican company Pigmentos Vegetales del Centro (Piveg) was recently granted a temporary stay of injunction - the initial phase of a patent infringement suit initiated by lutein supplier Kemin Foods and the Catholic University of America - after...

And then there were five…

The six bidders for UK supermarket group Safeway have now become five with the withdrawal yesterday of the US investment group KKR. The remaining candidates, all of them retail specialists, now await a decision from the regulators as to whether their...