Nutraceuticals

 
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OECD - Report of the OECD workshop on the toxicological and nutritional testing of novel foods -Meeting of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Food Safety - (48 pages) http://www1.oecd.org/ehs/ehsmono/aussoidrEN.pdf 
OECD - Safety Assessments of new foods - results of an OECD Survey of Serum Banks for Allergenicity testing, and use of databases - Internal co-ordination group for biotechnology - February 1997 - (34 pages) http://www1.oecd.org/ehs/ehsmono/surveydrEN.pdf 
FIM - The Foundation For Innovation In Medicine - home page - "a nonprofit foundation dedicated to increasing medical research and discovery concentrating particularly on natural substances be they pharmaceuticals or nutraceuticals" http://www.fimdefelice.org/ 
Michelle Stacey - Eating Your Medicine - The Battle Over Superfoods, a chapter refering to Stephen L. DeFelice http://www.fimdefelice.org/books.consumed4.html 
Swiss Technology Assessment Center - Zentrum für Technologiefolgen-Abschätzung beim Schweizerischen Wissenschafts- und Technologierats- Technology Assessment Functional Food - July 2000 - (337 pages) http://www.ta-swiss.ch/www-remain/reports_archive/publications/2000/37_TA_Bericht_Functional_Food.pdf 
Council of Europe's Policy Statements concerning nutrition, food safety and Consumer Health - Technical document - Guidelines concering scientific substantiation of health-related claims for functional food http://www.coe.fr/soc-sp/sante/functfood.ZIP  
Council of Europe - Public Health Committee - Energy Drinks - Information Note to Consumers - May 2001 http://www.coe.fr/soc-sp/sante/energ_drinks.htm 
FDA - Dietary supplements - home page http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/supplmnt.html 
FDA - Overview of Dietary Supplements - FAQs http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/supplmnt.html 
FOPH - Aliments fonctionnels - Information page http://www.bag.admin.ch/verbrau/lebensmi/infos/f/fakten/aliments_fonctionnels.pdf 
FOPH - Autorisation de mise sur le marché d'aliments spéciaux d'un genre nouveau - October 6, 1999 http://www.bag.admin.ch/dienste/medien/1999/f/99100635.htm 
FOPH - Vitamines et sels minéraux dans les denrées alimentaires - mentions autorisées http://www.bag.admin.ch/verbrau/lebensmi/lmrecht/f/vitamines_sels_mineraux_mentions.pdf 
Aide-mémoire pour l‘enregistrement des compléments alimentaires (food supplement) http://www.bag.admin.ch/verbrau/lebensmi/lmrecht/f/merkblatt_nahrungsergaenzungen.htm 
FOPH - Aide-mémoire pour l‘enregistrement des aliments de complément/aliments de supplément (ex. produits pour sportifs) http://www.bag.admin.ch/verbrau/lebensmi/lmrecht/f/merkblatt_ergaenzungsnahrungen.htm 
FOPH - Authorizations granted for special food - from July to December 2000 http://www.bag.admin.ch/verbrau/lebensmi/lmrecht/d_f/2_sem_2000_bs_aas.pdf 
Paul Walter and Marquard Imfeld - Les Aliments fonctionnels tiennent-ils leur promesse ? Tabula n° 1 - January 1998 - http://www.sve.org/francais/reportage/Reportage%20Tabula%201-1998.pdf 
Association Suisse pour l'Alimentation - Claudia Küpper - Ostéoporose: mieux vaut prévenir que guérir! - Tabula n° 3 - August 2000 http://www.sve.org/francais/reportage/Reportage%20Tabula%203-2000.pdf 
A Bon Entendeur - test margarines : la traque aux mauvaises graisses - February 27, 2001 http://www.tsr.ch/emission/abe/archive/01/010227.html 
FDA - Food Labeling; Health Claims and Label Statements for Dietary Supplements - Strategy for Implementation of Pearson Court Decision http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/98fr/120199b.pdf 
NFPA Letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Jane Henney Regarding FDA's Position on Pearson v. Shalala - April 4, 2000 http://www.nfpa-food.org/Letters/fdapearson00_4_4.html 
Pearson v. Shalala - January 15, 1999 http://www.emord.com/fdadecision.htm 
Pearson v. Shalala - Memorandum Opinion - (38 pages) http://www.emord.com/Memo%20Opinion%202-2-011.pdf 
David C. Vladeck , Devaluing Truth: Unverified Health Claims in the Aftermath of Pearson v. Shalala, 54 Food and Drug Law Journal at 535 - (20 pages) http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/54_4/art3.pdf 
U.S. DC Circuit Court of Appeals - Pearson Durk V. FDA -January 1999 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=DC&navby=case&no=985043A 
ATF 99 Ia 370 - decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal regarding sale by Migro of Vitamins C http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/99_I.html 
ATF 127 II 91 - decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal regarding an advertisement for milk as preventing osteoporose http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/127_II.html 
FTC - Marketer of Herbal Supplement Products Agrees to Settle FTC Charges That Safety and Health Benefit Claims Were False http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/12/chrisenterprises2.htm 
Dennis Murphy, Theodore H. Hoppock and Michelle K. Rusk - A Generic Copy Test of Food Health Claims in Advertising - November 1998 http://www.ftc.gov/os/1998/9811/netfood.pdf 
FTC - Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry - (32 pages) http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/dietsupp.pdf 
FTC - Enforcement Policy Statement on Food Advertising - May 1994 http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/policystmt/ad-food.htm 
GAO - Dietary Supplements: Uncertainties in Analyses Underlying FDA's Proposed Rule on Ephedrine Alkaloids, July 1999,  http://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/h299090.pdf 
GAO - Health Products for Seniors: Potential Harm From "Anti-Aging" Products, September 2001, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d011139t.pdf 
Functional Foods for Health - home page - "a joint program of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/ 
Functional Foods Sweden - home page - "The Centre represents national coordination and acts as an initiator and catalyst for strategic activities aimed at enhancing development, and for the creation and implementation of functional food projects" http://www.functionalfoods.nu/dyndefaultframe.asp 
Institute of Food Technologists - home page - "a nonprofit scientific society with 28,000 members working in food science, food technology, and related professions in industry, academia and government" http://www.ift.org/ 
IFT Expert Report on Biotechnology and Foods - August 2000 - (56 pages) http://www.ift.org/govtrelations/biotech/report.pdf 
Stephen H. McNamara - Dietary Supplements of Botanicals and Other Substances: A New Era of Regulation - 50 Food and Drug Law Journal341-348 (1995) - (8 pages) http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/50_3/art1.pdf 
C. Lee Peeler and Susan Cohn - The Federal Trade Commission's Regulation of Advertising Claims for Dietary Supplements - 50 Food and Drug Law Journal 349-355 (1995) - (7 pages) http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/50_3/art2.pdf 

 

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