Safety of Probiotics to Reduce Risk and Prevent or Treat Disease Executive Summary
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) commissioned the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center based at RAND to carry out a systematic review on the safety of probiotics used in research to reduce the risk of, prevent, or treat disease. The evidence report was jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements, the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
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