Cereals for vitamin E absorption
Eating cereal fortified with vitamin E may be a better way of boosting intake of the vitamin than through supplementing the diet with capsules, suggests a new study.
Archives for January 14, 2004
Parmalat: suppliers to save the day?
There is a defining issue for dairy giant Parmalat that has virtually nothing to do with fraud. If it lives to trade another day, it will be because it hung on to its suppliers.
Lifting the veil on the rice genome
Genomics continues to fascinate scientists across the globe taking up nature's challenge to understand the genetic make-up of the earth's organisms. An international team of scientists has succeeded in sequencing a little understood - but critical -...
Parnuts progress
Calcium sulphate as a source of calcium, and the amino acid salts, N-acetyl-L-cysteine and N-acetyl-L-methionine, may be included in draft regulations amending the PARNUTS directive, which will allow them to continue to be marketed for use in...