Functional Ingredients

March madness

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

I do hope that the industry will take a deep breath and realise that it may be up to the industry itself to help FDA flush out the fakers from the true movers and shakers.

Masquerading for profit

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

After many years of speculation about athletes like McGwire, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took a stand at a news conference in December regarding the sale of drugs masquerading as supplements.

Auld Lang Syne to Double Ought Nine

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

You've heard more than enough bad news — slumping economy, layoffs, flat is the new up. I can go on, but I would rather focus on the good news.

Message on a bottle: FDA's draft guidance on liquid dietary supplements

By Ivan Wasserman

On December 4, 2009, FDA released "Guidance for Industry: Factors that Distinguish Liquid Dietary Supplements from Beverages, Considerations Regarding Novel Ingredients, and Labeling for Beverages and Other Conventional Foods.

Is nano a no-no?

By Kantha Shelke

The very characteristics that promise exciting new possibilities also create unique and unpredictable risks for human health and the environment.

What is old is new again

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

Dietary supplement breaks drugmaker's heart

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

Niacin-based drug Niaspan outperformed not one, but two, leading cholesterol-lowering drugs — Merck's Zetia and sister drug Vytorin.

Functional ingredients defy odds

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

GMPs are upon us, though not everyone gets it yet.

Nobel prize news

By Todd Runestad

Everybody's talking about the American president who won the Nobel prize last week. The nutrition industry — especially the anti-ageing camp — should be more abuzz about the other three Yanks who also won the Nobel last week — for medicine.

Why will medical foods be a trend for the future?

By Susan D. Brienza, Esq.

Given the statutory and regulatory requirements of medical foods and their intended use, benefits, and efficacy& there are several reasons that medical foods will become a growing trend in the natural products industry.

Does this ad make your kids look fat?

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

This issue of <em>Functional Ingredients</em> is dedicated to the companies and researchers who place value in our children's health and welfare

Diagnosis of an ill-fated web site

By Pam Magnuson

Pam Magnuson critiques an FDA warning letter and uncovers copy writing gone astray.

The importance of duty of care

By Lindsay Moore, PhD

Exaggerated marketing, false and overblown label claims, adulterated and misbranded products all violate the law, mislead or deceive consumers, and evidence a failure by manufacturers to fulfil the duty of care due consumers.

Like all politics are local, all health is personal

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

As I was gliding through my sixth month of being 50, and getting rather comfortable with thinking about how I wanted to live the next half century of my life, a letter and a phone call arrived from my doctor.

It's all conditional

By Kimberly Lord Stewart

The July/August issue is an opportunity to check in on 'what conditions our conditions are in,' for the healthy ingredient industry.