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Nutrition labels 'in wrong place'
Nutrition labels should be placed in the centre of food packaging, rather than in one corner, if more shoppers are going to read them, says a US study.
There is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer, suggests further research in Denmark, based on a study of 350,000 people.
Article written by Fergus Walsh
Fergus Walsh
Medical correspondent
8 hours ago
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