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...market, where babushkas from nearby villages with woolly hats and dodgy teeth sell homegrown carrots and potatoes for 25¢ per pound. But look closer, and it's clear that even Lyudinovo isn't frozen in time. A shopping emporium that opened a year ago sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built on the outskirts - the first new residential construction in more than a decade. And until recently there was plenty of work for everyone at the five factories that employ the bulk of the townsfolk. (See pictures of Russian aristocracy...
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...exciting," says managing director Tim York, "is that today it's a $7 billion market, and it's projected to be worth $20 billion by 2010." The big players include companies like Japan's Yakult and France's Danone (Dannon in the U.S.), which sell probiotic bacteria in yogurt. Dannon's Activia yogurt was launched in America in 2006 and passed $100 million in sales in its first year...
...stake its claim, the Australian company has just done a deal with Denmark's Danisco to produce straws containing three strains of freeze-dried bacteria that "wake up" when they come into contact with liquid. Unlike yogurt, the straws don't need to be refrigerated and can be consumed in juice. The price could be as little as half that of a probiotic yogurt...
...Studies of probiotic products have found that some contain far fewer microbes than their makers claim; others contain no live bacteria at all. Earlier this year, Dannon was hit with legal action in California for allegedly exaggerating the benefits of Activia yogurt. The company rejected the accusation...