
pmid: 25163211
pmc: PMC6114170
The development and marketing of new probiotic products, substances containing live microorganisms that have a beneficial effect on the human body, have dramatically increased over the last few years. This article examines how the Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission currently regulate probiotics and makes recommendations as to changes that might be made to ensure that probiotic products are made available to the general public in a way that is both safe and effective.
Human Microbiome Project, Food Safety, Medical Immunology, 610, Health Promotion, Advertising, Food Labeling, microbiodata, microbiota, Humans, Drug Approval, United States Food and Drug Administration, Microbiota, Probiotics, microbiology, Legislation, Food, Health Law and Policy, United States, probiotics, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), ELSI, Medical Microbiology, Healthy Cohort Study, Dietary Supplements, microbes
Human Microbiome Project, Food Safety, Medical Immunology, 610, Health Promotion, Advertising, Food Labeling, microbiodata, microbiota, Humans, Drug Approval, United States Food and Drug Administration, Microbiota, Probiotics, microbiology, Legislation, Food, Health Law and Policy, United States, probiotics, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), ELSI, Medical Microbiology, Healthy Cohort Study, Dietary Supplements, microbes
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