Archives for April 24, 2008

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Special edition: Probiotic regulations and claims

How Canada regulates probiotics

By  Lorraine Heller

A second article in a series on probiotic regulations and health claims in different markets around the world examines the situation in the Canadian market.

Green tea's Alzheimer protection gets more support

By  Stephen Daniells

Green tea catechins may inhibit the loss of reference and working memory linked to plaque formation in the brain, say research from Japan, adding to claims that the beverage may help ward off Alzheimer's.

CAM criticism not justified, says ANH

By  Shane Starling

A pan-European healthy food and supplements trade group has criticised the UK's "first professor of complementary medicine", Edzard Ernst, for taking an "unscientific" approach in a new book.