News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
Following last Friday’s decision by Abbott Laboratories to pull its sibutramine-containing weight loss drug Meridia due to concerns about side effects, questions are being asked about dietary supplement contamination with the substance.
DSM Nutritional Products has entered into a new collaboration with Biotechnology Research and Information Network (BRAIN) to develop new ways of producing water-soluble vitamins by fermentation.
Supplementation of the diet with the phospholipid phosphatidylinositol may exert an anti-obesity effect by modifying gene expression in the liver, suggests a new study with mice.
Michigan-based Telos Ceuticals, LLC has launched a new carotenoid-rich extract from Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng, offering 76 times the amount of lycopene in tomatoes, 60 times the vitamin C in oranges, and 10 times the beta-carotene in carrots.
Solae Europe has debuted an insoluble fibre, soluble fibre and soy protein blend it says can support, “digestive health, heart health, and a lower glycaemic index for foods.”
Adapting to changing rules governing food supplements in the European Union is the central theme of an upcoming workshop hosted by Brussels-based consultancy, European Advisory Services (EAS).
Feeding infants with a new prebiotic-enriched formula may reduce the incidence of atopic dermatitis by 44 percent, says new data from a Danone Research study.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against a UK start-up for making unauthorised medicinal claims about a lactoferrin-based skin health supplement.