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St Johns Wort receives pharmacists' attention
A new information sheet for pharmacists entitled, 'Herb-medicines interactions: St John's Wort(Hypericum perforatum)' has been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain this...
Sexual enhancement products don't live up to claims
US-based provider of supplement assessments ConsumerLab.com said today that nearly 60 per cent of sexual enhancement products marketed in the US failed to pass its...
FDA finds commissioner, finally
A White House health policy adviser on the American President's Council of Economic Advisers has been chosen to fill the role, empty since January 2001,...
ABC promotes black cohosh
The American Botanical Council (ABC), a US body which addresses research on herbs and botanical extracts, is producing a scientific review of the health benefits...
False claims for weight-loss products on the rise
The US Federal Trade Commission last week released a report claiming that the false and misleading advertising claims made about weight-loss products have increased over...
Lonza puts PepZin on the market
Lonza, the Swiss-based pharmaceuticals company, has said that the US Food and Drug Administration has allowed the sale of PepZin GI, the subject of a...
California ephedra legislation gets thumbs up from industry
New legislation proposed earlier this month by the authorities in California designed to regulate the sale and labelling of ephedra products had been criticised by...
Draft study on safety of chaparral
The US Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements has released its first draft prototype monograph, reports...
New rice to benefit malnourished?
Rice grains with less phytic acid could mean improved nutrition for the world's malnourished, more nutritious animal feed and less potential for water pollution from...
EU would pay for US sanctions, claims US official
Europeans could pay more for everything from toys to heavy machinery if Brussels follows through on a threat to impose sanctions in a long-running trade...
Booming alternative medicine market prompts concern for users
An Australian professor urged consumers to take dietary supplements with caution today after a study revealed the size of the growing alternative medicine market in...
'Head to head' with the EFSA
The core task of the new European Food Safety Authority, still in its infancy and as yet without a permanent chief or home, will be...
Progress for European food safety authority
Europe will move closer to the completion of its food safety body next week when the 15 member management board of the new European Food...
Dairy Crest, more than butter
Britain's biggest dairy products firm Dairy Crest group is poised to buy St Ivel spreads from Uniq for £50-60 million pounds (€79-95 million), to rival...
Danisco 'sustains' performance
Danish ingredients company Danisco announced this week that it has achieved second place in Dow Jones' new global sustainability index for food manufacturers, the Dow...
Ephedra industry offers to help in educating the military
A new report by the American Obesity Association which claims that 54 per cent of US military personnel are overweight and a further 6.2 per...
California passes supplement restrictions
The California legislature has passed two bills concerning the sale and labelling of certain dietary supplements, according to an alert from the National Nutritional Foods...
Nutrinova wins patent case
Food ingredient company Nutrinova has won a legal battle against Zhangjiagang Hope Chemicals for infringement of it's European patent for the manufacture of the high...
FDA food safety centre updates adverse event system
The US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) has released information on its new system for tracking adverse event...
No safe intake limit for trans fatty acids
A report released by America's Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences claims that there is no known safe intake amount of trans...
Britain issues report on vitamin upper levels
An independent committee of experts set up to advise Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) yesterday issued a consultation document on the maximum levels of vitamins...
EU - next step towards food supplement directive
In anticipation of final approval by the European Parliament of the proposed Directive relating to food supplements, the European Union Scientific Committee on Food (SCF)...
Degussa BioActives sues creatine competitor
A US subsidiary of German health ingredients business Degussa BioActives said it has filed an order for prompt action on a case it brought earlier...
Japan cracks down on import of Chinese supplements
Japanese health ministry officials are launching a series of measures to prevent further health scares after the problems caused by dieting aids imported from China,...
Industry reacts to Canada's kava ban
Canada's Health Food Association (CHFA) has called the national ban on the sale of kava products 'completely unacceptable', and urged the health department to follow...
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