Tag: vitamins and minerals
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ASA Faults Beverage Marketing Claims
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld three challenges to marketing claims made by Santa Monica, California-based Neurobrands LLC about its line of “Neuro” beverages. Lodged in August 2011 before Commission Regulation (EU) No. 432/21012 established a list of permitted health claims for foods, the complainants argued that the claims appearing on Neurobrands’ website…
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CSPI Claims 7Up Antioxidant Beverages Mislead Consumers
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has filed a putative nationwide class action in a federal court in California against Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., alleging that the company misleads consumers, through marketing and product labeling, to believe that the antioxidants contained in its beverages are derived from fruits and that the…
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Court Dismisses Claims That Food Supplements Contain Undisclosed Pork Byproducts
A federal court in Illinois has dismissed a putative class action filed against a nutritional supplement company by a Muslim woman who alleged that the company misled consumers by failing to disclose that some of its products contain an animal-based product. Lateef v. Pharmavite LLC, No. 12-5611 (N.D. Ill., decided October 24, 2012). The court…
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NOP Interim Rule Addresses Continued Use of Vitamins, Minerals in Organic Handling
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program (NOP) has issued an interim rule extending the use of nutrient vitamins and minerals in organic handling while the agency considers a proposal to renew their exemption (use) on the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List) for another five years. According to a September…
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Rumors of Marmite Ban Spark Online Uprising
Rumors that Denmark banned the sale of Marmite and other savory yeast extract spreads because they contain added vitamins have apparently given rise to online protests and calls to boycott iconic Danish brands such as Lego®. Media sources have reported that Marmite fans rallied on Facebook and other social media sites after hearing that the…
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IOM Revises Vitamin D, Calcium DRIs
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has issued a report revising the dietary reference intakes (DRIs) for vitamin D and calcium, while warning that “too much of these nutrients may be harmful.” At the request of the U.S. and Canadian governments, the IOM Food and Nutrition Board assessed more than 1,000 vitamin D and calcium studies…
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AlterNet Article Questions “Nutraceuticals”
“Energy bars and energy drinks are just the tip of this antioxidant-enhanced, vitamin-enriched, high-fiber iceberg,” writes Anneli Rufus in an August 3, 2010, AlterNet article examining health claims based on nutraceuticals such as “vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, other botanicals, and that amorphous category known as dietary supplements.” According to Rufus, “nutraceuticals hark back to preindustrial…
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Laura Beil, “Is Your Breakfast Giving You Cancer?,” Prevention, March 29, 2010
“If there’s a nutrient it’s easy to overdose on, it’s folic acid,” writes Prevention columnist Laura Beil in this article citing research allegedly linking the synthetic form of B vitamin folate to colon, lung and prostate cancers. Beil reports that this nutrient is already a staple in most diets, partly because the government requires its…