Archives for June 2, 2014

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Southeast Asia

Unilever takes down ad banners showing extremist support in Burma

By RJ Whitehead

A year after opening its operation in Burma, consumer products giant Unilever is finding itself in hot water this week after advertising banners for the company’s products were found to support the Buddhist extremist movement blamed for a spate of...

Obesity a threat to global food security: DuPont

By Maggie Hennessy

Nearly three quarters (70%) of countries worldwide improved their food security in the past year, according to data from the 2014 Global Food Security Index jointly presented by DuPont and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). But the global threat...

Dispatches from Vitafoods Europe 2014

Keeping it clean: 3 botanical chiefs pull adulteration weeds

By Shane STARLING

Botanical adulteration, like doping in sports, is a problem that can be controlled but never totally resolved, but what is being done about it? Here the world’s biggest botanical players debate their attacks on the problem.