The Vitamin Shoppe halts sales of women’s multivitamin (Pharmaceutical Business Review) The Vitamin Shoppe, a large US retailer of vitamins and nutritional supplements, has voluntarily removed its Especially for Women multivitamin product from store shelves and its internet sales site. [News Source]

Long-sought vitamin A receptor found (People’s Daily) After three decades of investigation, researchers have finally identified the molecular lock -- receptor protein -- that enables vitamin A to enter the body's cells, according to new research in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science. [News Source]

Call 4 Action: Retailers Pull Women’s Multi-Vitamin From Shelves (WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News) One of the nation's largest vitamin retailers has pulled one of its multi-vitamins from store shelves. [News Source]

How Safe Are Your Vitamins? (News 25 Evansville) EVANSVILLE - You have hundreds of vitamins to choose from. But how do you know which one is the right one for you, and if it's safe? [News Source]

Fibre-rich diet ‘can halve the risk of breast cancer.’ Women can halve their risk of breast cancer by eating a diet rich in wholemeal bread and wholegrain cereal. [News Source]

Ministers slow to act on child obesity, warn MPs. Efforts to tackle the obesity epidemic in children are confused, slow-paced and hampered by ministers' attempts to stay friendly with the food industry. [News Source]

EU backs free fruit and veg for school children. Free fruit and vegetables could be on the lunch menu for tens of thousands of children under plans for farmers to be paid in full by the EU to give surplus produce to schools, hospitals or holiday camps. [News Source]

Organic allure. An organization in South Dakota is now helping local farmers educate themselves and market organic grass-fed beef. [News Source]

O, pioneers in Pasadena. A determined bid to go off the grid in the middle of Pasadena has won Jules Dervaes followers in more than 100 countries. [News Source]

The Vitamin Shoppe Halts Sales of Women’s Multivitamin (RedNova) The Vitamin Shoppe, a large US retailer of vitamins and nutritional supplements, has voluntarily removed its "Especially for Women" multivitamin product from store shelves and its internet sales site. [News Source]

Bush sees high-tech route to post-Kyoto world. US President George W. Bush said new technologies were ushering in a "post-Kyoto" era on how to feed energy-hungry economies on a climate-friendly diet of alternatives to oil. [News Source]

Recall: Women’s vitamins (NorthJersey.com) NORTH BERGEN -- The Vitamin Shoppe, a North Bergen-based maker of vitamins and nutritional supplements, said Wednesday that it had voluntarily removed its "Especially for Women" multivitamins from store shelves and its Internet sales site in light of allegations that the product contains trace quantities of lead in excess of California labeling requirements. [News Source]