Cereals for vitamin E absorption
Eating cereal fortified with vitamin E may be a better way of boosting intake of the vitamin than through supplementing the diet with capsules, suggests a new study.
Archives for January 14, 2004
Ahold chief calls for calm amid new shareholder revolt
Anders Moberg, chief executive of Dutch retail group Ahold, has called for a group of disillusioned shareholders in the company to back down from their threat of legal action in the interests of the company's future development.
Mixed fortunes for European retailers
Most of Europe's leading supermarket groups have published trading figures in the last few weeks, covering both the key Christmas period and the whole of 2003. Today we look at three more groups, based in the UK, Finland and France, which show...
GM crops to hit wildlife, says advisory body
Throwing the cat among the pigeons, UK government advisors confirmed yesterday that GM herbicide tolerant (HT) crops could harm wildlife, including farmland birds.
Hungary facing foie gras challenge
With Hungary's entry into the EU in May, producers of one of the country's main food specialities will face a particular challenge. Moves by the Union to phase out the force feeding of geese over the next 15 years are likely to have a major impact on...
Czech food groups still with much to do
With barely four months to go until the 10 accession countries become fully-fledged members of the European Union, many food companies still have a long way to go before they meet the Union's stringent requirements on food safety and quality.
Ambitions in food safety
US-based firm e-Foodsafety.com has entered into a distribution partnership with Tru-Pure Ozone Technologies. Under the terms of agreement, e-Foodsafety.com has exclusive rights to market and distribute Tru-Pure's patented food safety equipment....
Restoring consumer confidence
US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman has announced a series of e-Government initiatives in response to public fears over beef. In a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll, over one in five American adults - 21 per cent -...
Parmalat: suppliers to save the day?
There is a defining issue for dairy giant Parmalat that has virtually nothing to do with fraud. If it lives to trade another day, it will be because it hung on to its suppliers.
US consumer turns back on beef?
As the first case of mad cow disease sends US cattle prices plunging on the markets and dozens of nations ban US beef imports, new research shows that problems are starting at home in the American kitchen as consumers begin to get wary.
Price pressure to dominate UK retail in 2004
If 2003 was all about Safeway, and in the end Morrison's, in 2004 the UK grocery market agenda will be dominated by price. That is the key finding of a new report from retail market analysts Verdict published this week.
Lifting the veil on the rice genome
Genomics continues to fascinate scientists across the globe taking up nature's challenge to understand the genetic make-up of the earth's organisms. An international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical -...
Parnuts progress
Calcium sulphate as a source of calcium, and the amino acid salts, N-acetyl-L-cysteine and N-acetyl-L-methionine, may be included in draft regulations amending the PARNUTS directive, which will allow them to continue to be marketed for use in...
EBRD sells Lithuanian dairy stake
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has invested in a number of food and drink business in central and eastern Europe in recent weeks, but its latest move there is in fact a disposal rather than an investment.
Hypermarkets still top Czech preferences
Hypermarkets may be the domain of foreign rather than domestic retailers in the Czech Republic but this does not appear to concern most consumers there when it comes to their weekly shop.