E. Coli Outbreak, Spain And Germany Seek European Level Aid For Spanish Farmers
Spanish vegetable exporters mistakenly got the blame for the E.
June 3, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 064-cases, blame, bloody-diarrhea, coli-outbreak, diet, european, hus, the-blame, vegetable-exporters
EFSA Launches Updated Guidance For Food And Feed Risk Assessment Of GM Plants
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published updated guidance for the risk assessment of food and feed derived from genetically modified (GM) plants. The document expands on previous EFSA guidance and reflects the latest scientific developments in areas such as assessment of allergenicity and selection of the comparator plant against which the GM plant is compared…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: comparator, diet, european, european-food, feed-derived, genetically-modified, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, risk, risk-assessment, safety, such-as-assessment, the-comparator
Eating More Fruit And Vegetables Is Linked To A Lower Risk Of Dying From Ischaemic Heart Disease
A European study investigating the links between diet and disease has found that people who consume more fruit and vegetables have a lower risk of dying from ischaemic heart disease – the most common form of heart disease and one of the leading causes of death in Europe…
January 19, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-diet, common-form, european, heart-disease, ischaemic-heart, links, lower-risk, more-fruit, the-leading, the-links, the-most
European Medicines Agency Recommends Use Of Fibrates As Second-line Treatment
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has concluded that the benefits of the four fibrates bezafibrate, ciprofibrate, fenofibrate and gemfibrozil continue to outweigh their risks in the treatment of patients with blood lipid disorders…
October 24, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: benefits, blood-lipid, chmp, committee, european, european-medicines, fibrates-bezafibrate, human, medicinal, nutrition / diet, on call diets, risks, the-four, the-treatment, treatment