News, Analysis & Insights on Nutrition, Supplements, and Health
EFSA health claim opinion
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has rejected an emerging data article 13.5 health claim submission linking zinc and bad breath for being irrelevant to the EU nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR).
Industry response - NHS report on food supplements
The UK and European food supplements industry has hit back at a recent UK National Health Service (NHS) report that largely cast supplements as being ineffective, and recommended ‘a balanced diet’ as the best way to achieve optimum nutrition.
Technology that can speed up biological time may reveal the existence of hundreds of ‘vitamins’, and provide scientific evidence for how long-term nutrient intake affects the risk of chronic disease, says the executive chairman of a Silicon Valley...
Dispatches from Vitafoods Europe 2011
Krill provides only a small link in the omega-3 supply chain, but the sustainability of the Antarctic fishery is regularly brought under the spotlight, often unfairly says the WWF.
The safety of probiotics should be evaluated at the species and not the strain level when considering possible New Dietary Ingredients notifications, according to a new position paper by three leading probiotic groups.
Consumption of low-fat chocolate milk is beneficial to muscle recovery and exercise performance, claims two recent studies.
Supplementing breast feeding mothers with alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and select probiotics may enhance the fat content of the milk, and boost the immune benefits of the breast milk, suggests a new study from Finland.
BASF is confident it can bring a canola oil to market with sufficient levels of the coveted long-chain omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA to make heart health claims by the end of the decade.