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Find Out Your Nutritional Type With This Simple Test!
Dr. Joseph Mercola, a leading expert in natural health, explains what Nutritional Typing is and how it can help you achieve optimal health. To take the FREE Nutritional Typing test, visit products.mercola.comThese statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any … Continue reading
FDA Must Take Wider Look at GM Salmon, Economists Say
Genetically modified salmon that grow to full size quicker than their wild cousins could make the fish a cheaper part of a healthy diet for more Americans. But it may also have environmental consequences that accompany any possible expansion of fish farming. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision-making about whether or not to approve the fish for market needs to include those … Continue reading
Calorie counts coming to the menu
It can be difficult to stick to a healthy diet when you are eating out. The Food and Drug Administration is hoping to change that by requiring restaurants to post calories on their menu. Continue reading
FDA Should Set Salt Limits for U.S. Food, Report Says (Update3)
April 20 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should limit the amount of salt in restaurant and packaged foods to reduce the risk of heart disease, a report ordered by Congress said. Continue reading
GRAS Notification Update – U.S. Patent Grants
Burcon NutraScience Corporation announces today that the Division of Biotechnology and GRAS Notice Review of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the Food and Drug Administration has formally acknowledged receipt of Burcon’s GRAS notification. Continue reading
Vitamin D Deficiency Makes Asthma Worse
Experts are warning that current recommendations for daily vitamin D intake are “grossly inadequate.” “National recommendations from the Food and Nutrition Board are 400 to 600 International Units (IU) a day,” says Neil Binkley, MD, an Associate Professor in Geriatrics and Endocrinology at the University of Wisconsin. The Food and Drug Administration currently recommends between 400 and 600 International Units (IU) a day. Experts are recommending between 1500 to 2600 IU daily. And there’s Continue reading
FDA Warning Casts Suspicion on Bodybuilding Supplements and Sports Nutrition Industry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Public Health Advisory (PHA) warning consumers to avoid using bodybuilding supplements claiming to contain “steroids”, “steroid-like substances”, “steroid alternatives” and “hormone products”. The FDA warning failed to give guidance on the specific product ingredients that were problematic. The extremely broad language cast suspicion upon all “body building supplements” marketed for performance enhancement because they might contain syntheti Continue reading
Too Many Rodents in the Protein Powder, Says FDA
Not sure who actually ingests “protein powder” and “dietary supplements,” but if you do, I’d check the label next time you buy and make sure it’s not made by any of these New Jersey outfits: Quality Formulation Laboratories, Inc. , American Sports Nutrition Inc. , and Sports Nutrition International LLC . The Department of Justice just shut them down for, among other things, the live and dead rodents that Food and Drug Administration inspectors found on three separate trips to the fact Continue reading
Do not Do Xenadrine – Lose Weight Safely
You must be pretty desperate to consider using Xenadrine with ephedra. Or even without ephedra. This pill is very powerful and harmful. Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of Ephedra because of the side effects. So after this ban, the use of bitter orange extract in diet pills became common to serve as an ephedra alternative. Then people just assumed that if a pill had no ephedra it was then safe. NO. But is it really the case? What do researches from major Universities say?` … A s Continue reading
FDA Goes After NJ Dietary Supplement and Protein Powder Makers
The Food and Drug Administration wants to shut down three New Jersey companies that make dietary supplements and protein powders in conditions officials call “filthy” and for failing to declare milk and other allergens in the products.FDA officials have asked a federal court judge to issue a permanent injunction against Quality Formulation Laboratories, Inc., American Sports Nutrition Inc., Sports Nutrition International LLC, and Mohamed S. Desoky, who oversees operations at the three companies, Continue reading