European probiotics industry fears regulations will scuttle market for health-promoting or disease-preventing foods

Ambulant Market Foods: Consumer Problem or Solution?

  Background: The sale of food by street vendors is an activity of economic, sanitary, and nutritional importance, but these foods can pose a high risk to the health of consumers in inadequate conditions of preparation and storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the preparation conditions and the hygienic-sanitary quality of food sold by street vendors in the vicinity of four campuse...

Regulations of the European Union for mycotoxins in foods.

Mycotoxins are fungal metabolites that are present in a large part of the world food supply and bear potential threat to food safety. The European Union has been working for several years now on the harmonization of some mycotoxin standards for foods based on toxicological evaluation by its Scientific Committee on Food (SCF). These standards will follow the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievabl...

Are probiotics useful for treating or preventing eczema?

Probiotics for oral health: myth or reality?

For some decades now, bacteria known as probiotics have been added to various foods because of their beneficial effects for human health. The mechanism of action of probiotics is related to their ability to compete with pathogenic microorganisms for adhesion sites, to antagonize these pathogens or to modulate the host"s immune response. The potential application of probiotics for oral health ha...

Regulations, Market Power and Bank Efficiency in European Countries

This paper investigates whether different types of regulation may have a direct or indirect (through market power) impact on bank’s efficiency. We use a set of data containing European banks to consider the impact of regulations related to capital requirements, official supervisory power, restrictions on bank activities, and private monitoring on bank efficiency. Our results suggest that offici...