Dietary Supplements and Health presents systematic examinations of the scientific data that are available and/or needed to substantiate and evaluate the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements.

The book contains series of case studies that are illustrative of the types of scientific challenges that have been encountered in substantiating safety, and efficacy for various product types are employed to point out some of the successes but also frustrations that have occurred in recent years.

Contents

• Risk assessment of dietary supplements
• Setting dietary intake levels: problems and pitfalls
• Criteria for substantiating claims
• Science in the regulatory setting: a challenging but incompatible mix?
• Vitamin E
• Flavonoids: a re-run of the carotenoids story?
• Reduced folate status is common and increases disease risk. It can be corrected by daily ingestion of suplements or fortification
• Calcium and vitamin D
• Selenium
• Herbal medicines: balancing benefi ts and risks
• Standardization and evaluation of botanical mixtures: lessons from a traditional Chinese herb, Epimedium, with oestrogenic properties
• Communication between science and management
• Dietary supplements and health: the research agenda

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