Leading food companies have been accused of conducting “cruel and unnecessary” animal experiments to demonstrate the health benefits of their products.

COMMITTED healthcare activist and part-time journalist Orla Tinsley was last night named 2009 Irish Tatler Woman of the Year at a ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House.

READERS will be shocked to hear the real story of the animal experiments behind the report on health benefits of probiotic drinks (‘Probiotic drinks have a range of positive effects’, January 18).