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Diamond Packaging Wins Three Awards in 2017 Premier Print Awards
Aug 1, 2017Diamond Packaging has won three awards in the 2017 Premier Print Awards, the world’s most prestigious international print competition. Printing Industries of America (PIA) hosts the competition, which recognizes the creation and ...
Tags: Diamond Packaging, Packaging
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AstaZine Secures Novel Food Approval in Ireland
Nov 30, 2016BGG and its subsidiary Algae Health Sciences (AlgaeHealth) have announced that their flagship product, AstaZine Natural Astaxanthin, has won Novel Food approval from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The new approval will allow BGG to ...
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Cargill Announces Non-GMO Project Verified Ingredients
Oct 11, 2016Cargill has announced that its three food ingredients have been verified by Non-GMO Project. Cargill's erythrtol, cane sugar and high oleic sunflower oil are now Non-GMO Project Verified and commercially available. Cargill took this ...
Tags: Cargill, Non-GMO Project
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USANA Launches Clean and Personalized Foods Line Mysmartfoods
May 19, 2016USANA Health Sciences, the global nutritional company, is launching its new, low-glycemic load and gluten-free? USANA MySmart Foods line — composed of protein-based shakes and bars. Through MySmartFoods, USANA delivers a customized ...
Tags: Personalized Foods, bars
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Mariana Figueiro Presents At NIH Workshop On Light At Night
Mar 21, 2016Rensselaer Professor Mariana Figueiro, Light and Health Program Director at the Lighting Research Center was an invited speaker and panelist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop: Shift Work at Night, Artificial Light at ...
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Food Industry Must Stop Health Washing Says Choice
Oct 27, 2015Self-made school canteen certification logos on food and beverage packaging are misleading parents, according to consumer advocacy organisation, Choice. Products such as Paddle Pops, Tiny Teddies and Shapes are displaying “school ...
Tags: Food Industry, packaging
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Swedish Match's Proposal Has Not Been Accepted by a Panel of US FDA Advisors
Apr 16, 2015Swedish Match’s proposal to ease warning labels related to snus tobacco packaging has not been accepted by a panel of US FDA advisors. Snus is a moist tobacco powder put under the upper lip. Swedish Match wants the FDA to allow it ...
Tags: Snus Packs, FDA Panel, moist tobacco powder
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Drinking Coffee May Be Associated with a Lower Risk of Developing MS
Mar 5, 2015Drinking coffee may be associated with a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. The study, published in February 2015 and to be presented at ...
Tags: Drinking Coffee, Coffee
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EPA Updates Community
Feb 2, 2015On February 4, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting to discuss how a new scientific study about a previously unknown contaminant relates to the ongoing cleanup at the Reich Farm Superfund site in Toms ...
Tags: groundwater treatment system, drinking water, Agriculture
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Nearly Half of All Phase III Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Fail
Jan 14, 2015Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
Tags: self-reporting, lab tests, Health
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Two Medical Device Sales Representatives Have Admitted to Defrauding New Jersey Hospitals
Aug 18, 2014Two medical device sales representatives have admitted to defrauding New Jersey hospitals and medical facilities out of more than $800,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced this week. The two former Integra LifeSciences Corp. ...
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EPA Is Awarding $700,000 for a Research Project Being Conducted by The University
Aug 14, 2014BOSTON – EPA is awarding $700,000 for a research project being conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst on indoor air quality affecting tribal people. The research grant is one of six awarded today for projects to identify ...
Tags: EPA, Research Project, Service, Certification
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Nestle Works on a Project Lead to The Development of Made-to-Measure Vitamin Combinations
Jun 26, 2014The Nestle Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) and Waters Corporation - a company based in Massachusetts, USA - have begun working together on a groundbreaking new research project which could one day lead to the development of ...
Tags: Nestle, Vitamin Combinations
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Nicotine Addiction Levels Are Decreased
May 1, 2014A new study has provided evidence that nicotine addiction levels are decreased in smokers who have switched to electronic cigarettes, according to Dr. Michael Siegel writing on his blog, The Rest of the Story: Tobacco Analysis and ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
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U.S. Researchers Say People with Allergies Would Have Them No Matter Where They Lived
Mar 12, 2014Many who suffer from allergies think moving would help them but U.S. researchers say people with allergies would have them no matter where they lived. "Before this study, if you would have asked 10 allergy specialists if allergy ...
