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...their motorcycles as shopping carts for the fresh produce sold by Shan and northern Thai curbside vendors. A robed and skull-capped young man peddles authentic chocolate croissants under a hand-lettered "Muslim Homemade" banner. His cousin, who presides over the adjacent gun-and-tackle shop?which also sells herbal tea?is barely visible behind her black chador...
...sectors together account for about a third of P&G's $40 billion in annual sales and could reach 40% within the decade. Most of Procter's next generation of billion-dollar brands will probably come out of this area, which includes Olay skin care, Cover Girl cosmetics, Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo and Actonel osteoporosis prescription medication. Two of the most recent ones to join the elite club are Crest and Iams, the high-end pet food that P&G acquired in 1999 and has since turned into a mass-market brand. Driven by aging baby boomers and image-conscious...
Call them the ephedra wars. For the past five years, the FDA has been trying to restrict the availability of ephedra, an herbal stimulant and the active ingredient in hundreds of popular diet aids and energy boosters sold across the U.S. The reason for the agency's mounting alarm: ephedra has been linked to a number of strokes, heart attacks and seizures and more than 100 deaths. But every time the FDA gets closer to its goal, the dietary-supplements industry successfully lobbies other parts of the government to roll back changes...
...water be bad for your waistline? America's increasing thirst for fortified waters, which have added vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements and, yes, lots of sugar, has made products like Glaceau's vitamin waters huge sellers. Now, big guns like Pepsi and Snapple, trying to raise their share of the $6.9 billion bottled-water market, have launched their own concoctions. But drinking more water may not always be good for you. "The sugar levels in these drinks can actually inhibit the body's water- and vitamin-absorption and cause stomach cramping," warns Shan James, physiologist at Duke Health and Fitness Center...
...three recent deaths in Japan?has repeatedly insisted in the Japanese media that counterfeit drugs were actually the cause. "We have many copycats because we have such a good reputation," says the manager of the company's Beijing office, who identified herself only as Zhao. "We use only Chinese herbal medicines, not chemicals." Japan's Ministry of Health, however, found in recent tests that counterfeits of Sennomoto-kono contained no N-nitroso fenfluramine. Authentic Sennomoto-kono...