Asia Daily Briefing - Recipe for growth September 20, 2019

	COMPANY IN FOCUS: Ajinomoto takes on  Nestle -- and MSG's  unsavory reputation TOKYO -- Japan's Ajinomoto   wants to become a top 10  global foodmaker within  the next  five years. But first it has  to convince the world that  one of its mainstay products,   MSG,  isn't the health menace that  many believe it is.
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