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Jan 4th 2009Drug InformationNutrition / Diet
Exposure to low dose melamine in contaminated food products is not associated with severe kidney problems such as acute renal failure, concludes a study published on bmj.com.
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Jan 4th 2009Drug InformationNutrition / Diet
Doctors writing in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com, believe that while the 1830s workhouse diet may have been dull it was nutritionally sufficient and question whether Oliver really needed more. Sue Thornton and colleagues compared menus and other historical material on workhouse diets with Dickens’ fictional description of what Oliver ate: “three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week and half a roll on Sunday.
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Jan 4th 2009Drug InformationNutrition / Diet
Rice University and Roquette Frères have signed a licensing deal to enable bio-based production of succinic acid, a substance used in plastics, textiles, drugs and solvents and as a food additive. Roquette Frères, one of the world’s most advanced starch and starch-derivatives businesses, was intrigued by Rice’s patented microbial metabolic engineering technologies, which can produce bio-based succinic acid from renewable resources via “green” chemistry.
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