Lawmakers ask IRS to expand health savings accounts to include nutritional supplements
The bipartisan effort is picking up steam as more senators join the cost-reducing effort.
Archives for November 25, 2019
Defendants hit back in CBD content lawsuits: ‘Naturally occurring nutrients have an 80% safe harbor’
Defendants in a recent spate of lawsuits alleging discrepancies between the amount of CBD advertised on pack and the amount contained in the products, have hit back in motions to dismiss, with one arguing that such cases should be stayed until the FDA...
NIU’s Global Round-up: Antioxidants & telomere length in Brazilian kids, key immunity-boosting probiotic metabolite identified, and more
What's happened this week around the Nutra-Verse? Stay on top of things with our weekly round-up of key news from across the globe.
Editor's Spotlight: Startup Focus
Startup 'gamifies' gut health with diet app aimed at long-term change
A personalised nutrition startup offering the holistic benefits of both DNA and microbiome tests has revealed a dieting app to work in tandem with microbiome tests in an aim to 'gamify' gut healthy dieting and create long term changes to health.
Supplement-boosted plant-based diets meet sports nutrition needs, study says
Findings from a sports nutrition study suggest that vegetarian and vegan diets that include supplements can meet the athlete’s daily nutritional requirements.
ANSES issues formula production guide in response to 2017 salmonella outbreak
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) issues a series of recommendations designed to reduce infant formula contamination.
BSNA launches manifesto urging government to ‘maximise specialist nutrition value’
The British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA) sets out its manifesto, in which the group calls for government support for reformulation programmes and product labelling of commercial baby foods.