Archives for January 7, 2004

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UK cereal industry looks to new markets

Funding to bolster research into new food uses for cereals and oilseeds is behind a fresh R&D strategy released by the UK cereals industry this week, a move designed to open up new market opportunities for the sector.

Research supports '3-a-day' dairy foods

The US government could save more than $200 billion in healthcare costs in the next five years if it could persuade American adults to eat three or four servings of dairy foods each day, estimate the authors of a new report.

Rainforest produces low-cal sweetener

As an army of chemists around the world continues the march towards replicating in the laboratory the sweetest gifts from nature, a small group in West Africa is determined to stake a claim in the process.

Grain trader gets EBRD boost

Yu-Point, the largest grain trading company in Serbia and Montenegro, is about to expand further with the help of a €12 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Fortis Bank, a leading Dutch-Belgian financial...

Overproduction undermining price-war

Farmers in the UK have again been urged to cut the level of milk production by the milk year-end in March or face a 'super-levy' from the European Union.