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The UK complementary medicines market has grown by almost 60 per cent in the last five years to an estimated value of £130 million (€187m), despite the impact of new legislation and negative publicity regarding herbal remedies and homeopathy.
Novis, a European online publisher of global industry and science news for the food and beverage industries, has undertaken a major partnership with 15 leading international market report publishers. This agreement provides Novis' website users access...
The global economic downturn marked 2003 first quarter results for Dutch life science company DSM, but strong autonomous volume growth boosted figures to higher than 2002.
The US Food and Drug Administration has released a statement on the National Academy of Sciences' report, 'Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food'. The report has been received as a reinforcement of the FDA's progress in reducing and preventing...
Ahold is to sell its Indonesian supermarket chain Tops to the local market leader Hero, the latest phase of the Dutch group's programme of disposals of non-core assets.
Future co-existence of GM and non-GM foods is further put under question as Friends of the Earth claims to have obtained a report destined for the UK government revealing that if GM crops are commercially grown in the UK it would be "difficult and in...
The importance of adequate nutrition levels for women at the time of conception is under the spotlight as new animal research suggests even modest restrictions in maternal nutrition around the time of conception can lead to premature births and...