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Health professionals are being cautioned about the strength discrepancies of some Coenzyme Q10 products. Alternating brands of the popular CoQ10 supplement could hinder the management of diseases such as congestive heart failure and Parkinson's...
Canada's medicines body has released information on the adverse reactions caused by herbal medicines, in a reminder to health professionals and consumers of the procedure for reporting adverse events under the new Natural Health Products Regulations.
Irish dairy group Glanbia has begun construction of a new cheese and whey manufacturing facility expected to generate sales of around $350 million per annum when completed next year.
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...
An emergency decree passed late last month by the Italian government in a bid to save dairy giant Parmalat from collapse looks set to win support from the European Commission on the back of guarantees that there will be no state bail-out for the company.
Finland's Raisio Group, the maker of Benecol, is mulling the divestment of its chemicals unit, to allow it to invest further in its food businesses.
European researchers have begun work on the first generation of tomato plants engineered to contain high quantities of flavonoids.
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.
Women who take vitamin D supplements through multivitamins are 40 per cent less likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) than women who do not take supplements, shows a study published today.