Yeast ingredient shows promise for reducing airborne allergies
20-Nov-2009 - Supplementation with a yeast fermentate may improve allergy symptoms like runny nose, according to the...
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Life in a European health claims wasteland
09-Nov-2009 - Ka-CHING! Hear that? No it’s not the sound of overflowing cash registers as consumers throw...
Wild seeks guidance to validate immune boosting claim
04-Nov-2009 - An ingredients manufacture said it is seeking additional information from the European Food Safety Authority...
Low vitamin D again linked to higher mortality
03-Nov-2009 - Low blood levels of vitamin D have again been linked to lower survival in...
Paper proving source of antioxidants for Swiss firm
02-Nov-2009 - A Swiss company extracting what it claims are antioxidant polyphenols from pulp and paper processing...
Nutrient database can assist health claims
27-Oct-2009 - Pooling nutrient information is becoming an important and time efficient way for companies scientific data...
EU doctors deciding on elderly vitamin D levels
26-Oct-2009 - A group of European doctors is moving toward a vitamin D recommended level for the...
Tate & Lyle backs Asian prebiotic in Europe
26-Oct-2009 - A new partnership with chemical group Solvay will enable the distribution of a low dosage...
EFSA publishes probiotic guidance
22-Oct-2009 - Genetic typing, internationally recognised naming protocols and evidence of consistency in the final product have...
July 2010: When EU health claim compliance reaches store shelves
15-Oct-2009 - The European Commission has set itself the goal of processing the 94 generic article 13.1...
New organic-certified fucoidan for functional beverages
14-Oct-2009 - The first organic-certified fucoidan ingredient developed for the functional beverage market will be launched as...
UK censors Danone probiotic TV ads
14-Oct-2009 - The voluntary UK advertising watchdog has told Danone to cease broadcasting TV adverts that stated...
Lallemand puts spotlight on immune-benefits for probiotics
14-Oct-2009 - Immune health from gut health is not too obscure for consumers, but work needs to...
Yoghurt group unfazed by mass probiotics rejection
07-Oct-2009 - The European Food Safety Authority’s mass rejection of probiotic dossiers is not the disaster it...
Milk protein may protect premature babies from infection
07-Oct-2009 - Supplements of the milk protein lactoferrin alone or in combination with a probiotic the reduced...
Consumer press highlights probiotic health claim failures
06-Oct-2009 - Last week’s European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claim opinions have received a lot of...
Positive selenium health claim opinion welcomed
06-Oct-2009 - Lallemand’s functional food group, Lal’Food, has welcomed the positive opinion issued by the European Food...
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How tomatoes are informing Danone's probiotic claims
29-Sep-2009 - Danone’s newly submitted article 14 probiotic, diarrhoea health claim, is a product of the ongoing...
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The benefits of a probiotic witch hunt
28-Sep-2009 - Get your pitchforks ready! There are evil-doers out there! We’ve been conned: Probiotics don’t work....
Danone to resubmit bolstered article 13.5 dossiers
22-Sep-2009 - Danone will resubmit withdrawn article 13.5 European Union probiotic health claims by year’s end with...
Fytexia expands on weight management boom
21-Sep-2009 - French herbal supplier, Fytexia, has moved into a new premises at its southern French base...
Danone re-enters EU probiotic health claim game
16-Sep-2009 - Global probiotics leader, Danone, has submitted a new disease reduction article 14 health claim linking...
Danes debut healthy ingredients database
15-Sep-2009 - A Danish start-up has launched a database of healthy food ingredients and active molecules that...
Researchers partner up to improve health ingredients service
08-Sep-2009 - Bio2com and Sagacious have struck up a partnership to prepare new market reports and services...
Kids’ beverages target ‘all-natural’, ‘free-from’, immunity
04-Sep-2009 - All-natural, “free-from” ingredients perceived as unhealthy and ingredients that strengthen the immune system are the...
