Lonza patents vitamin absorption method
Swiss chemicals group Lonza has patented a method for increasing intestinal absorption of fat soluble vitamins in post-menopausal women, using its L-carnitine product.
Archives for November 25, 2002
Coffee raises heart disease risk
Coffee drinking raises homocysteine levels and risk factors for coronary heart disease, finds the latest research which fuels the ongoing debate on coffee's impact on heart health. Dutch researchers found that brewed coffee had a strong effect on...
Organic food poses greater food safety risk?
Following reports in the UK press last week that a government-funded study for the UK Food Standards Agency suggests free-range and organic chickens are twice as likely as battery hens to be contaminated with the food-poisoning bacteria campylobacter,...