In separate announcements, nutritional products group Herbalife and footwear maker Skechers said KPMG had resigned.
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This will be offset by a relatively slow growth from adult nutritional products.
The company could have even kept the iconic Twinkie, which still has its fans, if it had added more nutritional products.
The company has also opened a manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China and research facilities in Singapore and India for new nutritional products.
We expect the nutritional segment to continue to post high single-digit growth on back of Similac and other pediatric nutritional products like PediaSure, Ensure and Glucerna.
The suburban Chicago drug and medical product giant is splitting into a medical products business that will be called AbbVie, and trade under a new ticker symbol, ABBV, while the other company will retain the Abbott name and largely be focused on medical products including devices, diagnostics and nutritional products.
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The store-brand pharmaceutical and nutritional-products maker saw higher sales last quarter, but revenue missed estimates again.
McDonald's, which already provides nutritional information about its products, has been experimenting with printing the details on its paper tray-liners.
The Food and Drug Administration does not test the ingredients or safety of all herbal products and nutritional supplements before they appear in stores, as it does with prescription drugs.
Organic foods have no proven nutritional advantages over conventionally farmed products, but because they are more labor-intensive to farm and the yields are low, they are far more expensive and because consumer demand for fresh fruits and vegetables is elastic, higher prices mean people buy less of them.
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He believes that such resistance will prevent consumers of organic products from enjoying many nutritional and safety improvements to come.
"We wanted to look at our products and improve our nutritional profile, " she said, adding that the fries and sandwiches cooked in the new oil would taste and cost the same.
The name may not be snappy but the products are cheap and address common nutritional deficiencies.
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That year it committed to substantially improving the nutritional profile of two-thirds of its products by 2012, a goal it met by adding more whole grains and other better-for-you products.
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Likewise, a grocery cart that can scan the bar codes of products we put into it, informing us of their nutritional benefits and country of origin, enhances rather than impoverishes our autonomy (a prototype has been developed by a group of designers at the Open University, also in the U.K.).
Based on suspect nutritional theories and an obsession with regular bowel movements, these and similar new products represented an early triumph of advertising as much as any significant advance in western man's well-being.
Omega Protein is a nutritional ingredient company focusing on the production of Omega-3 fish oil and specialty fish meal products.
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