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News in Brief

Littleford Day Inc. and the GuelphFood Technology Center announced a strategicpartnership to provide new laboratory testing capabilities in Canada forcompanies exploring process development and scale-up of new products. ... TheWorld Basketball Association (WBA) selected AmericanLongevitys Rebound fx as The Official SportsDrink of the WBA. ... The European Commission (EC) imposed fines of more thanU.S.$90 million on Akzo Nobel, BASF and UCB for operating a cartel in the animalfeed market for choline chloride. ... Bosch Technology announcedplans to integrate the brands of SIG Pack,which it recently acquired, under the Bosch umbrella brand and to expand itspharmaceutical packaging offerings. ... Pharmavite LLC overhauledthe vitamin E component of its Vitamin and Herb University Web site(www.VitaminHerbUniversity.com) in response to recent negative news coverage ofstudies suggesting supplemental vitamin E could be detrimental to human health. Pharmavites revised site includes synopses of more than 100 scientificstudies exploring the impact of vitamin E on human health. ... TheNatural Marketing Institute released a new report, Understandingthe LOHAS Consumer Report: A Focus on Media & Sources of Influence.... Following a merger with an English law firm, the combined operation is nowknown as Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson GrahamLLP. ...Phytopharm PLC granted an exclusive global licenseto its Hoodia gordonii extractto Unilever PLC.The companieswill collaborate on research and development with the goal of bringing newpatented products containing hoodia to market. ... Despite increasing sales oforganic cotton products, U.S. organic cotton production in 2003 dropped to lessthan half that recorded in 2001, according to the OrganicTrade Association. ... CarringtonLaboratories and MannatechInc. renewed for an additional 12 months their currentsupply agreement for Mannatech to use Carringtons Manapol® powder, a rawmaterial based on aloe vera.