Prepared Foods' April 18, 2005, enewsletter reports that scientists with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have developed plants that produce DHA, an omega-3 oil vital for human health and normally found only in fish sources.

First, your bench-top developers formulated antioxidant vitamins and lycopene into your new functional product and assumed they would last until reaching the consumer.

In 2004, the top 40 largest drug companies deployed 100,501 sales reps to call on physicians in the U.S.

New in vitro research at the University of Scranton indicates that PomElla[tm], a pomegranate extract from Geni Herbs, displays five times greater antioxidant behavior than vitamin E or ellagic acid.

PL Thomas, in alliance with Laila Nutraceuticals, has announced results of a study (published in the April, 2005 issue of DNA and Cell Biology) using their dietary supplement ingredient, 5-LOXIN[r].

The Prepared Foods’ 2005 R&D Trends Survey: Functional Foods and Beverages highlights the ingredient trends, marketing and regulatory factors that produce healthful benefits and product success.

Straight from a new state-of-the-art plant in Norway, Arista Industries offers omega-3 fish oils refined from cold water fish.

The Alberta government has decided it will spend C $38 million on prion research to boost consumer confidence in beef and to contribute to possible solutions to the Mad Cow crisis.

A study, published in the January 2005 issue of Journal of the American Dietetic Association (pp. 65-71) and funded by Abbott Laboratories, shows that an herb used in traditional Indian medicine may control the rise in blood sugar that follows a meal, thus helping to treat or possibly prevent type 2 diabetes.

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