Probiotics and Health Claims

There has been an explosion in interest during the last few years in the use of probiotics as ingredients in foods, feeds and pharmaceutical products. Probiotic microorganisms are designed to have beneficial effects on gut health such as aiding digestion and inhibiting harmful bacteria, and these products are the clear leaders in the functional foods sector. Food authorities in major markets around the world including the European Union, the United States, Australia & New Zealand, China and Japan are now catching up with these innovations and are fast establishing legislation on what health claims may be made for such products. As the success of the products is founded on their health–giving attributes, it is vital that manufactuers are aware of, and are compliant with, this new legislation.
This book examines the international picture regarding probiotic food applications, placing a particular emphasis on the legal context and assessment procedures of probiotic health claims in the major markets for these products. Health claim legislation are described and the ways in which manufacturers can ensure compliance are discussed. The book also covers the use of meta–analysis to assess available data, and case examples from various regulatory cultures and traditions are included. It will be of interest to food industry scientists, executives and R&D personnel; international regulatory advisers and administrators; researchers, educators and students on food science courses.

Spis treści:

Introduction (Kneifel and Salminen)
Probiotics and health – future perspectives (Goldin; USA)
Health claims and functional foods – a European perspective (Salminen, FIN)
The role of meta–analysis in the evaluation of clinical trials (Hania Szajewska, Poland)
Health claims and dietary recommendations and in the US – current challenges (A. Lichtenstein , USA)
Probiotics and health research in the US (M.E. Sanders, USA)
Probiotics and health claims – a Japanese perspective (Fang He and co–worker, Japan)
Probiotics and health claims – a Chinese perspective (El Nezami, Hongkong, and We Hua Ling, China)
Probiotics an health claims – an Indian perspective (N. Shah, AUS & Prajapati, IN)
Applied studies with probiotics – fundamentals for meeting the health claims (H. Mykkänen & Atte von on Wright, FIN)
Probiotics research – the pediatric perspective (Zwiauer, AT)
Probiotics and health claims related to pharmaceutical preparations (Unger, Viernstein, AT)
Probiotics an health claims – the perspective of feed industry (Lettner, AT, DE)
Probiotics and health claims – an industrial perspective (R. Korpela, FIN)
Probiotics and health claims – from strain to product (A. Wind, Denmark–––to be confirmed, or Arthur Ouwehand and co–worker, Finland)
Probiotics and health claims – how to be met by SME´s (Gueimonde, SP, Lahtinen, Salminen, FIN)
Probiotic products – how can they meet the requirements? (Kneifel, AT)
Probiotics and health claims – hurdles for new applications? (Morelli, IT)
Probiotics and health claims – challenges for tailoring their efficacy (Lacroix & co–worker, CH)
Probiotics and innovation (I. Lenoir, FRA)

Nota biograficzna:
Professor Wolfgang Kneifel, Head of Food Quality Assurance Division, Department of Food Science and Technology, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Dr Seppo Salminen, Professor in Food Development and Director, Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Finland.
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There has been an explosion in interest during the last few years in the use of probiotics as ingredients in foods, feeds and pharmaceutical products. Probiotic microorganisms are designed to have beneficial effects on gut health such as aiding digestion and inhibiting harmful bacteria, and these products are the clear leaders in the functional foods sector. Food authorities in major markets around the world including the European Union, the United States, Australia &amp; New Zealand, China and Japan are now catching up with these innovations and are fast establishing legislation on what health claims may be made for such products. As the success of the products is founded on their health–giving attributes, it is vital that manufactuers are aware of, and are compliant with, this new legislation.
This book examines the international picture regarding probiotic food applications, placing a particular emphasis on the legal context and assessment procedures of probiotic health claims in the major markets for these products. Health claim legislation are described and the ways in which manufacturers can ensure compliance are discussed. The book also covers the use of meta–analysis to assess available data, and case examples from various regulatory cultures and traditions are included. It will be of interest to food industry scientists, executives and R&amp;D personnel; international regulatory advisers and administrators; researchers, educators and students on food science courses.