News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Special edition: Botanicals
Different maximum limits for red yeast rice mean the natural cholesterol management product is a food supplement in one country but a drug in others. Is it time for EU harmonisation?
A compound found in red wine could help prevent age-related decline in memory, according to a study in the journal Scientific Reports.
The Norwegian and Danish authorities have both issued warnings on the sale of vitamins that exceeded safe upper limits by up to 16 times.
Yakult at Probiota 2015: “We want to be clear that before we invest we need to have some dialogue with EFSA...”
Yakult and leading academics expressed frustration at what they see as unfair and opaque scientific requirements around probiotic health claims in the European Union – but how much is industry to blame and could social media be a data-sharing saviour?