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The European Commission (EC) has authorised the use of egg white lysozyme hydrolysate as a novel food in food supplements and other food categories such as a fortification ingredient.
Royal DSM has made available its dietary antiplatelet ingredient Fruitflow to Team Sunweb’s professional cyclists as part of their recovery regime and preparation for this year’s Tour de France.
UK firm Seaweed & Co's wild harvested knotted kelp (Ascophyllum) beats spirulina for iodine, potassium, calcium and magnesium, and can reduce salt in packaged foods or replace artificial smoke flavours, it says.
The Mead Johnson-Reckitt Benckiser merger has filed two international patents for formulations with dietary butyrate, which it says can improve brain development and reduce metabolic syndrome in infants.
European regulators confirm Unilever’s assertion that black tea can improve attention identifying caffeine and l‐theanine actions as ‘sufficiently characterised’ during the health claim approval process.
Nestlé is top for addressing the double burden of obesity and malnutrition, and while many firms have stepped up efforts, a "disappointing" number have too many unhealthy products in their portfolios, according to the Access to Nutrition Index...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has approved the use of shrimp peptides in food supplements, opening up an opportunity to develop a nutritional approach to blood pressure control.
The European Commission (EC) has raised the threshold limit by eight times, for two impurities found in the food supplement additive polyvinyl alcohol-polyethylene glycol-graft-co-polymer (E 1209).
As April draws to a close, definitive outcomes from the European Commission’s (EC) Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) programme, said to appear sometime in 2018, are still nowhere to be seen.
With the use of dietary supplements gaining popularity in pregnant women, researchers warn that current regulations may not take into account longer-term safety and health considerations for the child, adding updated regulations and nutrivigilance schemes...
DuPont Nutrition & Health and Inbiose are reaping the rewards of their partnership as EU authorities approve their first human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) ingredient designed for use in infant formula.
The European Commission (EC) has given the go ahead for a blend of three herbal roots to be used as a novel food in a supplement intended for post-menopausal women.
New Spanish limits on the amount of non-vitamin and mineral nutrients added to food supplements will provide clarity for businesses over their legal status, but add to the lack of uniformity throughout Member States.
