28 April 2008 00:15 [Source: ICIS news]
This week in ICIS Chemical Business, we present our special issue on food ingredients and nutraceuticals. Food prices are going through the roof - how can innovative ingredients mitigate inflation? Genetically modified (GM) crops may continue to gain acceptance around the world, while the debate rages on banning artificial food additives.
This week's top stories: 28 April 2008
Food ingredient suppliers offer cost-reducing technologies
Cost-reducing ingredients are in high demand as the food industry grapples with price hikes
GM crop developments aid biotech acceptance
Consumers, particularly in Europe, remain wary of genetically modified crops. Could this change with the next wave of biotech products?
US nutritional supplements industry regulations come into force
Tough new manufacturing guidelines from the US Food and Drug Administration aim to raise quality standards in the nutritional supplements market
Chinese citric acid producers face up to dumping charges
Chinese citric acid producers are accused of dumping. As the European Commission prepares to rule on the case, it is clear that a decision is long overdue
Lucite International to restart sale or IPO process in 2009
After its new Alpha technology methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant has proved itself this year, Lucite’s owners are likely to try once again to dispose of the company
Food fight
Additives are in the spotlight
Nutrient needs should come first
How some drugs’ side effects can slow healing
A dynamic database
Cognis gets a library of 150,000 biologically active substances
Chemical Profile
European orthoxylene
From Our Own Correspondent
Our deputy editor describes his transformation from a hippie childhood of fearing food additives to an adulthood of relishing junk food - perhaps a little too much
Endpoint
Rats are always dying of something - now it’s bisphenol A
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