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Glucosamine: food or drug?
The UK’s major food supplements trade association has joined the local medicines regulator in fighting a pharma player-led High Court legal action to ban glucosamine’s right to exist as both a food and a medicine in the UK and potentially other EU markets.
Organisers of Vitafoods 2014 want submissions for the next year’s conference that runs in conjunction with the Geneva ingredients and finished expo on May 6-8 next year.
Daily supplements containing resveratrol may reduce the production of compounds responsible for the build-up of cholesterol in the body of overweight and obese people, says a new study.
Natural products firm ChromaDex Corp. has entered into a material transfer agreement with Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), under which ChromaDex will provide ULB with its recently launched Niagen nicotinamide riboside (NR).