Ice cream firms ride Britain's summer heatwave
Ice cream sales have shot through the roof in Britain over the last week thanks to an almighty heatwave, leaving producers working flat out to meet consumers' insatiable demand.
Archives for July 24, 2006
WTO food talks end in suspension and failure
Pascal Lamy will demand a suspension of the Doha round of agriculture talks this week, after WTO members failed to reach a meaningful consensus.
Alcohol heart protection may not be down to inflammatory markers
A new study indicates that light to moderate alcohol drinking may exert cardioprotective effects in some, but in elderly men at least the mechanism of action does not seem to be down to a reduction in inflammatory markers as previously thought.
Record ingredient sales at Fonterra after good milk year
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra sold almost a tenth more milk-derived ingredients this year than the previous 12 months, pushing its overall revenue up 6 per cent to NZ$13 billion (€6.4bn), it reported yesterday.