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Welcome to FishWrap May 2003.

This is where we keep links to earlier news stories. Click on the date to go to the stories.

May 2003
Date Headlines
30 BASF innovates eco-friendly barriers for paper
Timing is everything
UK’s FSA issues new salt intake guidelines for kids
Bottled water leads to pollution problem
ConAgra poaches Nestlé boss
Whining power
Trade the real issue behind US GM complaint
Innovation needed to drive category sales
29 SIG wins prize for PET
Item code bodies agree electronic standards
Network prescribed for pharmacists
BASF, Phytodyne seek new soy traits
Give yourselves a pat on the back
US consumers reject antibiotic-raised meat
28 For the record
Paper chase simplified
To be wealthy, be wise and stay healthy
Money, not minerals affects tooth decay
BASF buys into new food inventor
Outlook sunny for personal weather forecasts
Hyper HEPA
23 Model predicts Listeria’s survival skills
Extracts offer natural antimicrobial action
Diet firm Atkins launches super premium ice cream
Personality improves with age, says study
Hershey breaks ground in Illinois
22 Peanut detection kit wins independent OK
How fresh is that fish?
NPD/Awards
Self-organising networks essential to innovations
US accused of using famine, AIDS to push GMOs
EC to tighten label laws on chicken contents
Life takes its toll on female diet
New compound may fight Alzheimer’s, type-2 diabetes
Congress to hear plea on Chinese garlic
Cosmeceuticals to boom
Big baccy wins a reprieve
World’s vital signs in decline
21 Novogen gets US patent for isoflavone skills
The Mouse digs dairy delights
DHC skin toner now on Net for summer
Parma takes home Asda bacon
UK’s FSA launches food intolerance Web site
Food business defies slow-down
20 Pushing water uphill
Snack attack depends on taste
Holland & Barrett to get Ahold’s De Tuinen chain
ConAgra sells Bumble Bee Seafoods to managers
Stop eating and start sweating
Brain food?
US kicks tobacco habit
UK government may ignore public on GM
Local is lovely
People
19 UK skills policy out of line with demand
US gets first Fair Trade bottled tea
Hain Celestial acquires Grains Noirs
2020 vision for food, health issues
Britain develops vegetarian tooth
16 Powerade reloads Matrix drink
Self-defence for plants
UK’s FSA warns against GM imports
Unilever Bestfoods sells Van Den Bergh Oils to ADM
Software maps social network
Product tracking software cuts retailers’ costs
15 Hain Celestial invents McDonald's McVeggie burger
Applesauce snacks taste better under pressure
Kuya to spice up Allied Domecq sales
EC invites business incubators
More quit Ahold's US Foodservice
Obesity costs US $93bn/y
UK to cut salt content in processed food
14 US food industry speaks with forked tongue on GMOs
Britons to comment on GMOs
S&N offers E429m for rest of Portuguese brewer
Google hackers speed up rankings
People
New tests could save 200,000 rabbits
EU launches ecosystems info service
13 US to challenge EU's GMO ban at WTO

Ahold director quits in wake of accounting scandal

UK marked down in innovation stakes
McDonald’s goes vegetarian
Artificial intelligence spots new genetic regulators
FDA proposes two new anti-bioterror rules

12 Swiss ban biotech crops for five years
US food sector wants tougher controls on GM crops
Biotech sector value shrinks 40%
P&G gets qualified OK from Wella boards
WHO chews fat with food & drink makers
People
Caps guarantee use-by deadlines
Do as I say, not as I do
09 FSA publishes research needs
New survey shows US consumers accept GM foods
FSA warns of vitamin and mineral overdoses
Ahold finds $880m hole in US profits
Carlsberg revenue dips 9% on same volumes
New source for biotech news
Proteomics/IBM lands first Japanese site
07 Scots catalogue food behaviour
FDA forces destruction of goods worth $500k
Lampert takes Kmart chair
NFPA offers cautious welcome to new FDA proposals
Trial by water
02 Crop controls questioned after second fine
Red wine may be the new sun-screen
Heineken bags BBAG for E1.9bn
Ahold continues sell-off in Far East, gets new boss
UK’s FSA warns against cyclamates
Soy offers mixed blessing
Gas-free oxygen sensors for food, waste processing
Don’t do it
01 Busquin pushes for R&D budget increases
EFSA to appoint up to 160 scientists
Fruit hoops?
PET packs a pure punch
Spring in Celestial’s step
Rescue remedy for tainted wine
Hi honey, I’m home
Doing it better
Pfizer shuts five R&D centres; thousands may lose jobs
Monsanto’s last Roundup?
 
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