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Article: Qualified health claim for antioxidant vitamins and cancer approved. (Top of the News).(Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements)(Brief Article)
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- Nutraceuticals World
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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In April, a letter from the Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements, of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, MD, indicated its allowance of a qualified health claim specifying the relationship of antioxidant vitamins and a reduced risk of certain kinds of cancer, provided that products using the health claim use one of three disclaimers provided by FDA. The choices of disclaimers include (1) "Some scientific evidence suggests that consumption of antioxidant vitamins may reduce the risk of certain forms of cancer. However, FDA has determined that this evidence is ...