Fat challenge test may identify dietary health effects
A high-fat challenge test employing cutting edge –omics technology may generate more and better information about the health effects of dietary ingredients and supplements, say researchers.
Archives for June 30, 2011
EFSA health claim opinion
Veteran L-carnitine prof: Rejected dossier literature is 'out of date'
A highly peeved, 30-year veteran L-carnitine researcher has written to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) calling on the agency to alter its rejection yesterday of an L-carnitine, article 13 health claim dossier that apparently was loaded with...
EFSA health claim opinion
EFSA intense sweeteners opinion lacks ‘common sense’, says Ajinomoto
Aspartame supplier Ajinomoto says a health claim opinion that refused the role of intense sweeteners in weight management defies ‘common sense’.
NDA panellist: Angry academics would come to same conclusions if on our panel
As the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) delivers hundreds of batch five general function health claim rejections to an ever-frustrated academic and commercial community, EFSA health claims panelist Ambroise Martin, PhD, tells NutraIngredients why...
Prebiotics may restore metabolic alterations linked to omega-3 poor diets: Study
Adding prebiotic fibers to the diet may go some way to restoring the metabolic alterations associated with insufficient intakes of omega-3, suggest new findings from a study with mice.