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The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements totalling $25mn with four well-known weight-loss pill marketers, sending out another warning to companies making unsubstantiated claims to consumers.
A single laboratory validation of a method for quantifying chondroitin sulfate in dietary supplement ingredients has been completed in California, bringing it one step closer to becoming an AOAC official testing method for the ingredient.
Watching television, eating family meals and the safety of the neighborhood all play a role in children's weight, according to researchers at the University of Missouri.
The possibility of setting maximum levels for bioactive substances in foods and supplements looks set to be a global regulatory theme for 2007, with the EC, several governments and the Codex committee considering the need for risk assessment - and the...
Women who regularly consumed at least one serving of full-fat diary every day gained about 30 per cent less weight than women who didn't, says a study from Sweden.
Ocean Nutrition Canada (ONC) is looking beyond its current focus of omega-3 ingredients, investigating marine microbial species to produce carotenoids and co-enzyme Q10.
Scandinavian Clinical Nutrition (SCN) has signed a 10-year research grant agreement with the renowned Karolinska Institutet, which aims to emulate similar academic-industry partnerships for pharmaceuticals and boost credibility of nutraceuticals.