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Australia's Federal Court is to proceed with a class action against a number of multinational vitamin companies for price fixing, despite an appeal that the country did not have jurisdiction over the companies.
A Swiss lobby group is stepping up pressure on the Government to introduce mandatory folic acid fortification of flour, according to a newspaper report.
The programme has been published for the first Latin American Conference on Food Supplements to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in October 2003.
The amino acid cysteine may be able to reduce the risk of breast cancer, according to a study presented last weekend, which found a link between lower risk of the disease and those women with higher levels of the antioxidant.
Balchem has enlisted the help of National Starch for the sales and marketing of its Vitashure range in Asia.
A new study on mice suggests that the herb black cohosh, used by women as an alternative to HRT to treat menopause symptoms, may speed up the spread of tumors in women with breast cancer.