Is National Starch division top of Tate & Lyle's shopping list?
Tate & Lyle will be first in the queue to snap up National Starch's specialty starches division if its new owners decide to raise a for sale sign...
Archives for September 19, 2007
DSM builds up 'strategic base' in Xinghuo
DSM Nutritional Products is closing its vitamin manufacturing plant in Gonglu, Shanghai, and transferring production to its nearby Xinghuo site,...
Life stage nutrition: eat right from the womb to the tomb
Nutritional interventions at different life stages can play a decisive part in reducing the risk of developing degenerative diseases from dementia to...
One size doesn't fit all for functional foods, say scientists
The marketing and testing of functional ingredients will become much more sophisticated in future to take account of genetic variability between...
'False flax' provides new omega-3 source
Irish researchers have resurrected camelina sativa - a medieval oil seed crop, also known as false flax - as a potential source of omega-3 in yellow...
The final frontier for fatty acids
A new facility has opened in the Western Isles of Scotland boasting a unique two-stage process for making fatty acid concentrates of up to 99% purity...
FSA resists call to ban additives
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has refused calls to persuade the European Commission (EC) to ban various additives after research was unveiled...
Sports and energy top Euro drinks league
Sports and energy drinks have consistently outperformed rivals in the European beverages sector over the last five years, showing average value...
No sign of let up in vitamin C prices
BASF has confirmed that its Japanese joint venture partner Takeda will stop manufacturing vitamin C by the end of 2007, leaving DSM as the only major...