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IFF's breath of fresh air for flavour industry

10-Apr-2003 - International Flavours & Fragrances (IFF) is to launch CoolTek, a high-intensity cooling technology claimed to impart a "unique taste sensation for a clean, refreshing, energising...

Stick with the pasta

10-Apr-2003 - Researchers have expressed the need for long-term studies on the effects of low-carbohydrate diets. A review of this currently popular regime suggests that although successful,...

Organic farming as viable as conventional, new study

09-Apr-2003 - The debate on the yield superiority of traditional crops over organic crops is set to continue as a recent study reveals that corn and soybeans...

DNA - the answer to cattle disease

08-Apr-2003 - While the wounds of BSE remain raw, researchers in the US reveal that chromosome sequencing could lead to solutions for new tests and vaccines for...

Health benefits of fruit compromised

08-Apr-2003 - A correlation between high fruit and fruit drink consumption and risk of Parkinson's disease has been found by researchers in Honolulu, believed to be due...

Mad elk disease, a reality?

07-Apr-2003 - The death of three hunters from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is likely to heighten fears that people in North America are contracting a new form of the...

Raw broccoli to curtail cancer?

04-Apr-2003 - Earlier this week we reported on news on the powerful selenium-sulphoraphane duo in preventing disease. New research in the same domain suggests that gene silencing...

Understanding Vitamin A

01-Apr-2003 - US researchers, trying to understand why vitamin A helps fight certain diseases and not others, say that the vitamin influences the types and amounts of...

Our amazing internal world

31-Mar-2003 - New insights about the foundations of our health could soon be revealed thanks to the recent completion of the genome sequence of one of the...

The perfect weight

28-Mar-2003 - Dieting and over-eating - two potent issues at the heart of today's health driven society. One slice of the population - women - is particularly...

All meat no bone?

27-Mar-2003 - Scientists in the US have dismissed the theory that people who eat meat absorb more calcium than vegetarians. Researchers at the ARS Western Human Nutrition...

US takes the biscuit...

18-Mar-2003 - Confirming reports from the European Commission yesterday that the European consumer is sceptical about food-related biotechnologies, are the findings of a joint UK-US study into...

Soy impact on reproduction?

13-Mar-2003 - Is it possible that soy foods could influence human reproductive development? A new study released this week reports that male rats whose mothers were fed...

Food crops protected against contamination?

11-Mar-2003 - In a bid to limit the contamination of food crops by pharmaceutical plants the US Department of Agriculture has issued a new guidance to tighten...

Hope for peanut allergy sufferers

11-Mar-2003 - With legislators across the world currently discussing the issue of food allergens and labelling, scientists are busy in the labs investigating solutions to this increasing...

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