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Silicon Valley to inspire Irish food innovation

By Shane Starling

The Irish Food Board (Board Bia) is urging Irish food manufacturers to take risks and experiment in product development by utilising the kind of “regional centres of competition” that helped make Silicon Valley in California the nexus of global software...

Not enough vitamin D may boost depression risk

By Stephen Daniells

They say sunshine can cheer you up, but insufficient levels of the sunshine vitamin may also increase your risk of developing depression, says a joint study from Italy and the US.

EFSA health claim opinion

EFSA says no to Gencor weight loss claims

By Lorraine Heller

An ethanol-water extract of Caralluma fimbriata is not sufficiently substantiated to carry weight loss health claims, according to new opinions issued by the European Food Safety Authority.