Natural red food dye shows potential Alzheimer’s benefits: Study
Orcein – a natural red dye used in foods – could help to reduce neuronal dysfunction and memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease, according to new research
Archives for December 6, 2011
Strawberry extracts show heart benefits in obese people
Daily supplements of strawberry powder may improve heart health measures in obese people, suggest results of a new pilot study from the USDA and the University of California, Davis.
NDI draft guidance comments
FDA history of safe use definition is ‘arbitrary and unfounded’, says pre/probiotics group
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rethink its approach to live microbial dietary ingredients.
NDI draft guidance comments
ANH-USA: 'Unworkable and irrational’ NDI guidance is rulemaking by the backdoor
Health advocacy group the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) is exploring all available “legal remedies” should the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fail to ditch or substantially revise its draft guidance on new dietary ingredients (NDIs).
Dispatches from FIE 2011
Soy market flat? Fat chance, says Solae CEO, as ‘flexitarian’ eating rises
Growing numbers of part-time vegetarians, or ‘flexitarians’, are feeding demand for soy products, says the chief of the biggest soy supplier in the world, who refutes suggestions the soy market is flattening out in some regions.
Provexis keeps Fruitflow powder dry, axes UK R&D facility
UK plc Provexis plans to shut its UK research and development (R&D) facility, as the company seeks to reposition itself within the sports nutrition market and co-develop a powder version of heart health ingredient Fruitflow with DSM, which it says will...
222 health claim winners set for EU law books…and 2000 losers
Five years after the controversial European Union nutrition and health regulation (NHCR) was enacted, an article 13 general function health claims register of about 2200 claims has been OK’d by the European Commission and member states and is likely to...
NDI Draft Guidance Comments
UNPA: NDI draft guidance is ‘needlessly burdensome’ & does not advance overall safety of dietary supplements
The new dietary ingredient (NDI) draft guidance, as it stands, will not help achieve the objective of full and efficient implementation and enforcement of DSHEA, says the United Natural Products Alliance (UNPA), as it adds its voice to calls for FDA to...
NDI draft guidance comments
Citizens for Health NDI guidance withdrawal petition signatures approach 15,000
Health advocacy group Citizens for Health (CFH) has delivered a petition to the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Food and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed by more than 12,000 Americans, calling on the FDA to withdraw its draft...