Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: A Global Perspective

Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: A Global Perspective offers the most comprehensive resource available today on regulatory aspects of the growing and economically important functional food industry. Hasler brings together an impressive list of international experts with legal and scientific expertise address the full–range of relevant topics. From quality issues and labeling, to organic foods and innovative product development–this text has it all. In addition, overview chapters discuss global principles and inter–country trading issues and also present a comparison of the laws and regulations within different countries.
This timely book is a "must have" for researchers, managers, and marketing strategists in the worldwide functional foods/nutritional supplements business. Food technologists and engineers responsible for manufacturing quality should add it to their library to ensure that they have a throrough knowledge of the applicable legal requirements.

Spis treści:
Foreword (Clare M. Hasler).
1. The Impact of Regulations on the Business of Nutraceuticals in the US: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. (Kathie L. Wrick).
2. The Regulatory Context for the use of Health Claims and the Marketing of Functional Foods. Global Principles (Michael Heasman).
3. Regulation of Quality and Quality Issues Worldwide. (Joy Joseph).
4. Organic Food Regulations: Part Art, Part Science. (Kathleen Merrigan).
5. Health Claims: A U.S. Perspective (Victor Fulgoni).
6. Food and Drug Administration Regulation of Dietary Supplements (Stephen H. McNamara, Hyman Phelps & McNamara, P.C.).
7. The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997. Tropicana Pure Premium and the Potassium Health Claim––A Case Study (Carla McGill).
8. The Importance of the Court Decision in Pearson v. Shalala to the Marketing of Conventional Food and Dietary Supplements in the United States (Elizabeth Marte ll Walsh, Erika Lietzan, and Peter Barton Hutt).
9. Dietary Supplements and Drug Constituents: The Pharmanex v. Shalala Case and Implications for the Pharmaceutical and Dietary Supplement Industries. (Daniel A. Kracov, Paul D. Rubin, and Lisa M. Dwyer).
10. The Role of the Federal Trade Commission in the Marketing of Functional Foods (Lesley Fair).
11. Functional Foods: Regulatory and Marketing Developments in the United States. (Ilene Ringel Heller).
12. The Nutraceutical Health Sector: A Point of View. (Stephen DeFelice).
13. Regulatory Issues Related to Functional foods and Natural Health Products in Canada. (Kelley Fitzpatrick).
14. The Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in the European Union. (Peter Berry Ottaway).
15. Functional foods in Japan. FOSHU (“Foods for Specified Health Uses”) and Foods with Nutrient Function Claims. (Ron Bailey).
16. Regulation of Functional Foods in China. (Karen Lapsley and Guangwei Huang).
17. Southeast Asia Region Coordinated Survey of Functional Foods in Asia. (E–Siong Tee).
18. Regulation of Functional Foods and Herbal Products in Germany and Sweden. (Joerg Gruenwald and Birgit Wobst).
19. Functional Food Regulations in Australia and New Zealand. (Jane L. Allen, Peter J. Abbott, Susan L, Campion, Janine L. Lewis, Marion J. Healy).
20. Regulation of Functional Food in Spain. (Luis García Diz, Jose Luis Sierra Cinos).
21. Functional Food Legislation in Brazil. (Fraco Lajolo).
22. Codex and its Competitors: The Future of the Global Regulatory and Trading Regime for Food and Agricultural Products. (Mark Mansuer).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
CLARE M HASLER, Ph.D, M.B.A. is the founding Executive Director of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at the University of California–Davis. She was the founding Director of the Functional Foods for Health Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana 211;Champaign campuses and served as Assistant Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She also served as adjunct assistant professor of pharmacognosy in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1998, Self Magazine recognized her as one of the Top 25 Food Influentials.

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Regulation of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals: A Global Perspective offers the most comprehensive resource available today on regulatory aspects of the growing and economically important functional food industry. Hasler brings together an impressive list of international experts with legal and scientific expertise address the full–range of relevant topics. From quality issues and labeling, to organic foods and innovative product development–this text has it all. In addition, overview chapters discuss global principles and inter–country trading issues and also present a comparison of the laws and regulations within different countries.
This timely book is a "must have" for researchers, managers, and marketing strategists in the worldwide functional foods/nutritional supplements business. Food technologists and engineers responsible for manufacturing quality should add it to their library to ensure that they have a throrough knowledge of the applicable legal requirements.