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Article: Evidence for Health Claims on Foods: How Much is Enough? Introduction and General Remarks1,2
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Institute of Nutrition Jun 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction
Through advances in clinical trial design, analytical methodologies for assessing the nature and level of the bioactive constituents, and establishment of processes for systematic assessment of available literature, health claims on foods are becoming increasingly recognized as important and consequently are being legally regulated in more and more countries around the world. Legislation pioneered largely in Japan began to emerge in the 1980s to bring some systematization to the issue of how much data are required to substantiate a claim for a given dietary agent in order to improve a function and/or modify physiological processes in a manner consistent with the attenuation of ...