Rooibos Clinical Trial Findings Announced at Science Café 26 Nov ‘08

On 28 November 2008: The SA Rooibos Council hosted its second annual Rooibos Science Café at the MTN ScienCentre, Canal Walk, Cape Town. Exciting research results from a pioneering study on Rooibos and Heart Disease were announced, along with an overview of Rooibos research supported by CANSA (the Cancer Association of South Africa).

Amongst the guests who celebrated the new research study were Martin Bergh (SA Rooibos Council Chairman), Dr Jeanine Marnewick (Senior Researcher at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology), Mientjie Mouton (SARC director: product research), Donnée MacDougall (SARC director: marketing), and Dawie De Villiers (SARC director: natural resources management.