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Tomato has no effects on cardiovascular diseases

Effect of a tomato-rich diet on markers of cardiovascular disease risk in moderately overweight, disease-free, middle-aged adults: a randomized controlled trial. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of mortality in the United Kingdom. Epidemiologic studies suggest that consumption of tomato-based foods may lower CVD risk. Such potential benefits have been ascribed in part to

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ConAgra rethinks ketchup

ConAgra Foods says consumer demand for ketchup free of high-fructose corn syrup « was not as strong as expected.” There’s a ketchup change that’s making some consumers red in the face. Omaha-based ConAgra Foods Inc. has quietly re-introduced high-fructose corn syrup to some bottles of the company’s Hunt’s brand ketchup. The shift back to the heavily

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Sequencing of the tomato genome now complete

Several teams of scientists have managed to sequence the tomato genome. Thanks to this advance, the cost and varietal diversity of tomatoes is likely to change. The tomato is revealing itself progressively. Scientists from the French INRA (National Agronomic Research Institute) have collaborated with colleagues of the Tomato Genome Consortium (TGC) and carried out the

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Canada: Marketing commission revokes tomato processor’s licence

The Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission has revoked the vegetable processing licence of Jem international Food Products Inc. as the company has failed to pay some tomato growers for their supply last year. The commission held a hearing in march and ordered the company, which is affiliated to DaVinci Foods in Montreal, to pay growers

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Last tomato processor plans to increase production

Australia’s only remaining tomato processor plans to expand. Cedenco Australia says it will grow its factory at Echuca in northern Victoria by 50 per cent in the next three to five years for an unknown cost. Times have been tough for processing tomatoes, with a third of growers leaving the industry in the last two

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MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop

The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a disruptive technology for the ketchup industry, an MIT professor has found a solution to getting

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Duty Rates for tomato products 2012

EUROPE 14.4 % on industrial products for all origins with 2 exceptions: Chile with a gradual reduction of tarfiffs on a 4 (industrial products) to 7 (finished products) year period (3 % in 2008 and 0 % from 2009) & Turkey with a duty free quota of 8000 MT. for diced tomatoes. 10.2 % on

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Transport Costs 2012

FROM   COUNTRY TO CITY PRICE in EURO FR-Avignon GERMANY Munchen 1000 FR-Avignon GERMANY Berlin 1380 FR-Avignon GERMANY Hamburg 1580 FR-Avignon AUSTRIA Vien 1190 FR-Avignon POLAND Warszawa 1880 FR-Avignon NORWAY 2680 FR-Avignon SERBIA Belgrad 2260 FR-Avignon SWITZERLA Lausanne 1150 FR-Avignon SWITZERLA Bern 980 FR-Avignon UK FR-Avignon SPAIN Barcelona 450 FR-Avignon ITALY Parma 690 ES-Badajoz FRANCE

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