Archives for August 16, 2005

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Awareness of Chinese B5 deal important for US

By  Jess Halliday

Vitamin B5 supplier Charles Bowman is taking steps to prevent a shortage in the US market, following the acquisition by Xinfu Biochemical Company of the next biggest player in China.

Cognis keeps up the growth spurt in nutrition

Cognis' focus on nutrition and health, and the on-going boom in sterols and sterol esters, helps the business unit to retain its position as one of the group's strongest for the first half of 2005.

Lifeway sales betray probiotics surge

If anyone doubted that the US probiotics market's star is rising, kefir-maker Lifeway Foods' latest results, positive in spite of milk price vagarities, should be enough to convince them.

Diet prevents healthy developing heart disease

Encouraging everyone to follow a healthy, cholesterol-lowering diet and quit smoking would do more to cut the number of deaths from heart disease than targeting people who already suffer from it, say researchers.