<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - sweetener</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/sweetener</link><description>Newsvine - sweetener</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:16:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:58:14 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Diet Pepsi quietly changes sweetener</title>
<description><![CDATA[Diet Pepsi is quietly changing its sweetener ahead of a major rebranding of the soft drink set for next month.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Candice Choi]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Candice Choi]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15947538-diet-pepsi-quietly-changes-sweetener</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/16/15947538-diet-pepsi-quietly-changes-sweetener</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>pepsi</category><category>sweetener</category><category>diet-pepsi</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:16:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ex-Mamtek CEO fights extradition to Missouri</title>
<description><![CDATA[The former chairman and CEO of a Missouri sweetener company who is accused of using bond revenues to avoid foreclosure on his Beverley Hills home is refusing to be extradited from California to face securities fraud and theft charges.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/28/14139537-ex-mamtek-ceo-fights-extradition-to-missouri</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/28/14139537-ex-mamtek-ceo-fights-extradition-to-missouri</guid><category>us</category><category>extradition</category><category>us-news</category><category>beverley-hills</category><category>sweetener</category><category>facility</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mamtek CEO charged with theft, securities fraud</title>
<description><![CDATA[The CEO of a failed artificial sweetener company was charged Tuesday with theft and securities fraud in Missouri for allegedly using bond revenues to avoid foreclosure on his Beverly Hills, Calif., home and misleading financiers about the company's troubled operations.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David A. Lieb]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David A. Lieb]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/18/13940091-mamtek-ceo-charged-with-theft-securities-fraud</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/18/13940091-mamtek-ceo-charged-with-theft-securities-fraud</guid><category>us</category><category>charges</category><category>us-news</category><category>sweetener</category><category>facility</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:35:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5dd41ad9-3cf6-4a14-bf39-cf91a2c156fb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5dd41ad9-3cf6-4a14-bf39-cf91a2c156fb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announces felony charges against former Mamtek U.S. CEO Bruce Cole outside the failed business in Moberly, Mo., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Cole was arrested at his California home Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Kit Doyle)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=28d9f0f0-f401-4c14-9665-4e7a708351f1.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=28d9f0f0-f401-4c14-9665-4e7a708351f1.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, at podium, announces felony charges against former Mamtek U.S. CEO Bruce Cole outside the failed business in Moberly, Mo., Tuesday morning, Sept. 18, 2012.  Cole was arrested at his California home Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Kit Doyle)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=50b926c5-457c-4c79-9a0a-4776ef6575ee.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=50b926c5-457c-4c79-9a0a-4776ef6575ee.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Moberly mayor Bob Riley talks to the media after Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced felony charges against former Mamtek U.S. CEO Bruce Cole outside the failed business in Moberly, Mo., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012.  The Mamtek U.S. property will be auctioned on October 24. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Kit Doyle)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24fc3c72-f2ff-444c-97c6-a480df05b8ac.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="331" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=24fc3c72-f2ff-444c-97c6-a480df05b8ac.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="186" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announces felony charges against former Mamtek U.S. CEO Bruce Cole outside the failed business in Moberly, Mo.,Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012.  Cole was arrested at his California home Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Columbia Daily Tribune, Kit Doyle)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Mo. lawmakers push to prevent Mamtek-like failures</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Missouri House committee has endorsed several new mandates for state and local government after the planned construction of a sweetener plant in Moberly failed last year.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/06/10592193-mo-lawmakers-push-to-prevent-mamtek-like-failures</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/06/10592193-mo-lawmakers-push-to-prevent-mamtek-like-failures</guid><category>business</category><category>us</category><category>missouri</category><category>legislation</category><category>sweetener</category><category>facility</category><category>missouri-house</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:21:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New sweetener not so sweet for your diet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is stevia, an extract 300 times more potent than sugar, the no-fat, no-calorie "natural" sweetener that soda and juice lovers have been thirsting for? ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bridget Murray Law]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Bridget Murray Law]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/17/2695786-new-sweetener-not-so-sweet-for-your-diet</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/17/2695786-new-sweetener-not-so-sweet-for-your-diet</guid><category>health</category><category>sugar</category><category>artificial</category><category>sweeteners</category><category>calories</category><category>consume</category><category>sweetener</category><category>chew-on-this</category><category>only-on-msnbc-com</category><category>mutagenic</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:14:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/March/090323/090415-truvia-hmed-2p.photoblog400.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="284" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/March/090323/090415-truvia-hmed-2p.120;120;7;70;0.jpg" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;thecoca-colacompany.com&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Coke to sell drinks with stevia; Pepsi holds off</title>
<description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola Co. will begin selling products made with a new zero-calorie sweetener despite no official nod from the government, but rival PepsiCo Inc. said Monday it won't follow suit.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/15/2215680-coke-to-sell-drinks-with-stevia-pepsi-holds-off</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/15/2215680-coke-to-sell-drinks-with-stevia-pepsi-holds-off</guid><category>business</category><category>drinks</category><category>sweetener</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:18:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>