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Codex Breaks its Own Rules!

06 May 2005

Hard on the heeels of the Advocate General finding procedural flaws in the European Food Supplements Directive, the US based National Health Federation now finds procedural flaws in the development of Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements.

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Republic of Ireland: What are you eating?

29 April 2005

With food scares throughout Europe and ever increasing regulation governing the sale and manufacture of foodstuffs, those in the industry await the European Parliament's Food Supplement Directive with some trepidation. David Cullen and Marcella Clarke report

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How I was asked to 'author' a ghostwritten research paper.

27 April 2005

Recently, the House of Commons health select committee looked at the submission of ghostwritten articles to medical journals. Witnesses from two pharmaceutical groups, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, "strongly denied that ghostwriting was practised in their respective companies".

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Dietary Supplements and Health Freedom

27 April 2005

Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system.

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Vitamin C Saves Lives

22 April 2005

Millions die each year from heart disease and stroke, and the overwhelming evidence is that vitamin C supplementation would save many lives.

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Court Overturns FDA Ban on Low-dose Ephedra Products

15 April 2005

A United States District Court ruled yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration failed to prove that a dosage of 10 milligrams or less of ephedrine alkaloids presents an unreasonable risk of illness of injury when the agency banned all ephedrine-containing dietary supplements last year.

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New Evidence on Vitamin E Safety

15 April 2005

Statistical experts have already largely discredited the extremely poor meta-analysis announced last Fall by the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine that re-analyzed only 19 studies on Vitamin E.

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Vitamins E and C are safe across a broad range of intakes

11 April 2005

A robust database shows that dietary supplements of vitamins E and C are safe for the general population. Because these nutrients supply antioxidant and other functions for homeostasis and protection against free radical damage, supplementation has been intensively studied.

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