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The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements totalling $25mn with four well-known weight-loss pill marketers, sending out another warning to companies making unsubstantiated claims to consumers.
Trends 2007
Smoothies are set to be the high street success story for the UK soft drinks industry over the next few years, figures suggest, harnessing a growing trend for healthy fast food.
The possibility of setting maximum levels for bioactive substances in foods and supplements looks set to be a global regulatory theme for 2007, with the EC, several governments and the Codex committee considering the need for risk assessment - and the...
Women who regularly consumed at least one serving of full-fat diary every day gained about 30 per cent less weight than women who didn't, says a study from Sweden.
Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC) is looking beyond its current focus of omega-3 ingredients, investigating marine microbial species to produce carotenoids and co-enzyme Q10.
Scandinavian Clinical Nutrition (SCN) has signed a 10-year research grant agreement with the renowned Karolinska Institutet, which aims to emulate similar academic-industry partnerships for pharmaceuticals and boost credibility of nutraceuticals.