Research and Markets Adds Report - Japanese Product Innovation Series Market Report: Soft Drinks.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-5 August 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report - Japanese Product Innovation Series Market Report: Soft Drinks(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Japanese Product Innovation Series Market Report: Soft Drinks" report to its offerings. In...

Volt Soft Drinks Sponsors MySpace.com's Voter Registration Drive.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-8 October 2008-Volt Soft Drinks Sponsors MySpace.com's Voter Registration Drive(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Volt soft drinks join Guitar Hero, MySpace.com, MTV Rock the Vote, and several other nationally known brands to sponsor the Ultimate College Bowl, a voter registration drive put together by Whytuesday.org. ...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Asia-pacific to 2011.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-13 July 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Soft Drinks in Asia-pacific to 2011(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Soft Drinks in Asia-pacific to 2011" report to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets...

Research and Markets Adds Snapshots Germany Carbonated Soft Drinks 2008.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-24 July 2008-Research and Markets Adds Snapshots Germany Carbonated Soft Drinks 2008(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Snapshots Germany Carbonated Soft Drinks 2008" report to its offerings. In a release, Research and Markets noted...

Beverage industry fights New York plan to tax soft drinks.
The American Beverage Association (ABA) launched a campaign against New York Gov. David Paterson's proposal to raise taxes on regular soda and juice drinks by 18 percent. The tax is intended to fight obesity. The ABA claims the tax is a regressive measure that will mainly hurt...

Soft drinks are linked with gout risk and fructose appears the culprit.
Reference: Choi HK, Curhan G. Soft drinks, fructose consumption, and the risk of gout in men: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2008; 336: 309-12. Design: Observational prospective study Participants: 46,393 men with no history of gout at baseline Primary Outcome Measures: Food frequency questionnaires...

Determination of pesticide residues (>0.5 [micro]g/L) in soft drinks and sports drinks by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry: collaborative study.
A collaborative study was conducted on a method for the measurement of 19 low-level pesticide residues in soft drinks and sports drinks by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The pesticide residues determined were 2,4'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (2,4'-DDE); 2,4'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (2,4'-DDD); 4,4'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (4,4'-DDE); 2,4'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (2,4'-DDT); 4,4'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (4,4'-DDT); 4,4'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (4,4'-DDD); [alpha]-endosulfan; endosulfan-sulfate; dieldrin;...

Determination of low-level pesticide residues in soft drinks and sports drinks by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry: collaborative study.
A collaborative study was conducted on a method for the measurement of 11 low-level pesticide residues in soft drinks and sports drinks by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. The pesticide residues determined in this study were alachlor, atrazine, butachlor, isoproturon, malaoxon, monocrotophos, methyl paraoxon, phorate, phorate sulfone, phorate...

Hard times likely for soft drinks.
Byline: Niranjan Bharati & Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI: The government is increasingly getting conscious about the health of people. After launching a campaign against tobacco, the health ministry is now considering to ascertain the illeffects of carbonated water or soft-drinks. The ministry has asked the...

Fructose in sugary soft drinks is implicated in rise in gout.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND -- Consumption of soft drinks containing fructose may underlie the sharp increase in gout in American adults that has occurred in recent decades, Dr. Hyon K. Choi said at the annual meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology. Since 1967, when high-fructose corn syrup became...