Olestra given the all-clear
The US Food and Drug Administration has given the Procter & Gamble fat replacer olestra the all-clear, after new scientific evidence found there was no need to warn consumers of side effects.
Archives for August 4, 2003
Flour millers feel the heat
The heat wave that has hit Europe has affected the production of a number of crops, not least wheat.
Germans eating more chocolate
German chocolate sales grew by 3.6 per cent in the first five months of 2003 as retailers ended their price war and returned to more normal prices. But volumes rose by less than 1 per cent, and the exceptionally hot weather in June and July is likely...
US sugar industry examined
US department of agriculture sugar-market economist John Love has predicted that producer prices for sugar for 2002/03 will be 5 per cent higher than last year's.