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UN remains confident of stable dairy prices for 2005

The United Nations' food agency has singled out burgeoning demand in Asia as contributing to the overall international price increase of dairy products, but remains confident that prices will begin to stabilise in 2005, Tom Armitage reports.

Rhodia compares chemical routes in vanillin production

Nearly half of the world's vanillin supplies are sourced from China but since tighter production rules arrived there a few years ago there are now only two major Chinese producers left in the country, reports Lindsey Partos. With a recent Chinese...