Archives for January 8, 2004

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Sweet opportunity

Food giant Cargill has opened a plant to manufacture erythritol, a sweetener that is claimed to taste like sugar but contain no calories. The group believes there is real potential in the product, and has already signed an agreement with a Japanese...

Muller complains about Danone's advertising

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received complaints from members of the public and from the dairy giant Muller about a Danone yoghurt advert published in a UK magazine. The ASA decided that the advert used health claims that could...

Dangerous bacteria found in formula milk

The food industry has underestimated the scale of the problem with Enterobacter sakazakii contamination. According to research carried out in this week's issue of The Lancet,( 30 December 03, pp 5,39)