Article published: Nutritional Composition of Orange Juice: A Comparative Study between French Commercial and Home-Made Juices
Aurélie Chanson-Rollé, Véronique Braesco, Julien Chupin, Laurence Bouillot.
Food and Nutrition Sciences, 7, 252-261.
http://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=65813
16th Fat Soluble Vitamins Congress, Paris, March 21st-23rd, 2017
The 16th Fat Soluble Vitamins international Congress will be held in Paris from March 21st until March 23rd, 2017.
Main topics will be related to vitamins A, D, E, K and other fat soluble compounds such as carotenoids, with updates on the latest analytical approaches, and on the role of these compounds on metabolic disorders, disease prevention and health promotion.
For more information about the congress : http://fsv-paris2017.com/index.php/welcome.
Click here for more information about exhibition and partnership opportunities.
Author: A. Chanson-Rollé. December 2016.
Dietary Reference Values for vitamin D
The ESFA has just published the finalized version of its scientific opinion on the Dietary Reference Values (DRV) for vitamin D.
The NDA Panel defined an adequate intake (AI) of 15 µg per day (600 IU per day) for healthy individuals over one year of age (including pregnant and lactating women).
However, and as highlighted by the EFSA, Vitamin D can also be synthesised in the body by exposure to the sun, reducing the amount of vitamin D needed via the diet.
The DRV of 15 µg/d is based on the assumption of minimal exposure to the sun with resulting limited levels of synthesised vitamin D. This value will therefore ensure that European consumers take in sufficient levels of vitamin D irrespective of their geographic location and exposure to sun light.
The opinion is available at the following link: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4547
Author: A. Chanson-Rollé. November 2016.
VAB-nutrition’s opinion on sugars in this recent Euroscientist paper :
http://www.euroscientist.com/sweet-tooth-countering-one-lethal-addictions/
Article published: Influence of the Lactotripeptides Isoleucine–Proline–Proline and Valine–Proline–Proline on Systolic Blood Pressure in Japanese Subjects: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Aurelie Chanson-Rolle, François Aubin, Veronique Braesco, Toshimitsu Hamasaki, Masafumi Kitakaze
PLoS One. 2015 Nov 4;10(11):e0142235
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142235
Article published on nutraingredients.com
The decision of the European Commission to authorise the health claim submitted by VAB-nutrition on vitamin D has triggered media interest, as shown by the paper published on the website nutraingredients.com.
Eliot Beer, journalist for the website nutraingredients.com, has interviewed Véronique Braesco about the authorization by the European Commission of the health claim “Vitamin D contributes to the normal function of the immune system in children” submitted by VAB-nutrition.
Read the article here.
Author : H. Aufaure. September 2016.
Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of a health claim submitted by VAB-nutrition
We are happy and proud to see the quality of our scientifico-regulatory services formally recognised : the Official Journal of the European Union has published on August 17th the regulation 2016/1389, authorising the health claim (pursuant to article 14 of the 1924/2006 regulation): “Vitamin D contributes to the normal function of the immune system in children”. This decision follows the favorable opinion of EFSA in may 2015, based on the scientific dossier that we had written and submitted.
This claim can thus be displayed on food products meeting the conditions of use (being at least a “source” of vitamin D, which means containing at least 0.75 µg vitamin D per 100g/ml, as recalled in the register of claims http://ec.europa.eu/nuhclaims/).
Click here to read the document.
Author: V. Braesco. August 2016.
Article updated on 13/09/2016.
EFSA: Health claims guidance update
The EFSA has published this summer the draft document for its revised scientific and technical guidance for the preparation and presentation of health claim applications. Once finalized, this document will be the second revision of the guidance, following the first revision published in 2011.
The draft document is currently open for public consultation, and interested parties can submit comments until September 12th, 2016.
More information at: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/160718a
Author : A. Chanson-Rollé. August 2016.
EFSA will review the effects of Bisphenol A on the immune system
EFSA is setting up a working group of international experts to evaluate new scientific evidence on the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA) on the immune system.
EFSA is conducting this review following publication of a report by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) that raises concerns about the effects of BPA on the immune system of fetuses and young children. This report critically examined two studies describing pre- and perinatal effects of BPA on the immune system that were unpublished when EFSA performed its 2014 risk assessment of BPA.
More information at: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/160426a?utm_content=hl&utm_source=EFSA+Newsletters&utm_campaign=3bd764133f-HL_20160428&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7ea646dd1d-3bd764133f-59442097
Author: A. Chanson-Rolle. May 2016.
Article published: Effects of chewing on appetite, food intake and gut hormones: A systematic review and meta-analysis
S. Miquel-Kergoat, V. Azais-Braesco, B. Burton-Freeman, M. M. Hetherington
Physiol Behav. 2015 Nov 1;151:88-96.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938415300317
Dietary Reference Values for vitamin D
The ESFA has published a draft scientific opinion on the Dietary Reference Values (DRV) for vitamin D.
As for other vitamins and minerals, the EFSA has launched a public consultation on the draft document. Interested parties can submit written comments by 16 May 2016.
The document proposes a recommended intake (“adequate intake”) of 15 μg/day for all population groups, except or infants age 7-11 mo for who the recommended intake is of 10 µg/d. The Panel underlines that this value applies under conditions of minimal cutaneous vitamin D synthesis. In the presence of cutaneous vitamin D synthesis, the requirement for dietary vitamin D is lower or may even be zero. These recommendations have been based on the amount of dietary vitamin D that would be needed to reach a suitable value for serum 25(OH)D concentration (maker of vitamin D status), set at 50 nmol/L for all population groups.
The draft opinion is available at the following link: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/consultation/160321.pdf
Author: A. Chanson-Rolle. April 2016.
Health claim: EFSA positive opinion on creatine with resistance training and improvement in muscle strength
The new positive opinion published on February 23rd 2016 concerns a health claim based on newly developed scientific evidence (article 13.5). The application had been submitted by AlzChem AG.
The EFSA NDA panel considered that the scientific evidence provided by the applicant was strong enough to support the claim that the daily consumption of creatine could enhance the effect of resistance training on muscle strength in adults over the age of 55 who are engaged in regular resistance training. The dossier was supported by five human intervention studies and a plausible mechanism to explain how creatine could exert the claimed effect.
The full opinion is available here:
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/4400?utm_content=pub&utm_source=EFSA+Newsletters&utm_campaign=99b73fe1e6-HL_20160225&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7ea646dd1d-99b73fe1e6-59442097
Author: Aurelie Chanson-Rolle. March 2016.
EFSA: Draft guidance documents on applications for novel foods
EFSA has just published two draft guidance documents in the area of novel foods.
The documents have been developed following the adoption at the end of last year of the new EU Regulation on novel foods (regulation EU 2015/2283).
The first document describes the requirements applicants will need to meet when submitting applications for the authorization of novel foods under the new regulation. The second document concerns the information applicants will need to provide to demonstrate the history of safe use of traditional foods from third countries.
These two drafts are open for comments until 21 April 2016. The final guidance documents will be published soon after.
The new EU regulation on novel foods was published in November 2015. Most striking changes comparing to the current EU regulation on novel foods (that follows Regulation (EC) 258/97) are summarized below:
The old regulation (258/97) will be abrogated on January 1st 2018.
Author: A. Chanson-Rolle. February 2016.
Dietary guidelines for Americans 2015
The 2015 update of the US Dietary Guidelines have just been published.
The document (available here) provide guidelines to encourage healthy eating patterns for Americans. These guidelines also influence public health policies and programs related to food and beverage consumption in the US.
Author: A. Chanson-Rolle. January 2016.
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