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License agreements with leading infant formula makers helped Martek Biosciences maintain a strong revenue stream in this year's first quarter but although it has continued last year's profit-making run through to 2004, margins were impacted by...
A Swedish R&D company has launched a slimming pill based on a green tea concentrate that it claims is almost as effective as the weight loss drug Xenical, without similar side effects, writes Dominique Patton.
Chemicals group Rhodia signed off the sale of its food ingredients business to ingredients giant Danisco today, in a deal worth €320 million.
A new study points to yet another risk associated with a diet rich in animal protein - it may increase the risk of gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in men.
The success of the 'little bottle' or 'daily dose' format in the probiotics sector is encouraging companies to launch new functional products in the handy sized bottle, leaving out the traditional packs altogether, writes Dominique Patton.