Archives for December 1, 2008

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Why farm support puts food on plates

“Four legs good, two legs bad.” When the pigs take over the land in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, they have no hesitation; any creature with four legs is beyond reproach and any human is bad, mad and dangerous to know.

Astaxanthin supply readies for increase

By Shane Starling

 The world’s leading human nutrition astaxanthin supplier, Algatechnologies, has set aside land for increasing capacity at its southern Israel base, as global demand for the carotenoid continues to rise.

French probiotics find success in China

By staff reporter

Canadian probiotics supplier, Lallemand, has responded to the growing wealth and interest in healthy foods in China by formalising an existing probiotics-based partnership with a Chinese nutrition company.

Codex agrees nutrient risk analysis principles

By Shane Starling

Codex Alimentarius, the World Health Organization’s food supplements regulations advisory body, has handed in nutrient analysis recommendations that have pleased the world’s biggest global dietary supplements trade group.

World AIDS Day

The role of nutrition in living with HIV/ AIDS

By Stephen Daniells

Nutrition and HIV/AIDS are intricately linked. To mark World AIDS Day, NutraIngredients.com looks at the science behind the role of nutrition and nutrients for people living with HIV and/or AIDS.