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Development of Dietary Supplement Label Database in Italy: Focus of FoodEx2 Coding

The sector of food supplements is certainly varied and growing: an ever wider offer of new products is launched on the market every year. This is reflected in new reorganization of drug companies and new marketing strategies, in the adoption of new production technologies with resulting changes in d...

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Autores principales: Durazzo, Alessandra, Camilli, Emanuela, D’Addezio, Laura, Piccinelli, Raffaela, Mantur-Vierendeel, Angelika, Marletta, Luisa, Finglas, Paul, Turrini, Aida, Sette, Stefania
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31892267
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010089
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author Durazzo, Alessandra
Camilli, Emanuela
D’Addezio, Laura
Piccinelli, Raffaela
Mantur-Vierendeel, Angelika
Marletta, Luisa
Finglas, Paul
Turrini, Aida
Sette, Stefania
author_facet Durazzo, Alessandra
Camilli, Emanuela
D’Addezio, Laura
Piccinelli, Raffaela
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Finglas, Paul
Turrini, Aida
Sette, Stefania
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description The sector of food supplements is certainly varied and growing: an ever wider offer of new products is launched on the market every year. This is reflected in new reorganization of drug companies and new marketing strategies, in the adoption of new production technologies with resulting changes in dietary supplements regulation. In this context, information on composition reported in labels of selected dietary supplements was collected and updated for the development of a Dietary Supplement Label Database according to products’ availability on the Italian market and also including items consumed in the last Italian Dietary Survey. For each item, a code was assigned following the food classification and description system FoodEx2, revision 2. A total of 558 products have been entered into the database at present, trying to give a uniform image and representation of the major classes of food supplements, and 82 descriptors have been compiled. Various suggestions on how the number of FoodEx2 system descriptors could be expanded were noted during the compilation of the database and the coding procedure, which are presented in this article. Limits encountered in compiling the database are represented by the changes in the formulation of products on the market and therefore by the need for a constant database update. The database here presented can be a useful tool in clinical trials, dietary plans, and pharmacological programs.
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spelling pubmed-70193342020-03-09 Development of Dietary Supplement Label Database in Italy: Focus of FoodEx2 Coding Durazzo, Alessandra Camilli, Emanuela D’Addezio, Laura Piccinelli, Raffaela Mantur-Vierendeel, Angelika Marletta, Luisa Finglas, Paul Turrini, Aida Sette, Stefania Nutrients Article The sector of food supplements is certainly varied and growing: an ever wider offer of new products is launched on the market every year. This is reflected in new reorganization of drug companies and new marketing strategies, in the adoption of new production technologies with resulting changes in dietary supplements regulation. In this context, information on composition reported in labels of selected dietary supplements was collected and updated for the development of a Dietary Supplement Label Database according to products’ availability on the Italian market and also including items consumed in the last Italian Dietary Survey. For each item, a code was assigned following the food classification and description system FoodEx2, revision 2. A total of 558 products have been entered into the database at present, trying to give a uniform image and representation of the major classes of food supplements, and 82 descriptors have been compiled. Various suggestions on how the number of FoodEx2 system descriptors could be expanded were noted during the compilation of the database and the coding procedure, which are presented in this article. Limits encountered in compiling the database are represented by the changes in the formulation of products on the market and therefore by the need for a constant database update. The database here presented can be a useful tool in clinical trials, dietary plans, and pharmacological programs. MDPI 2019-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7019334/ /pubmed/31892267 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010089 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Finglas, Paul
Turrini, Aida
Sette, Stefania
Development of Dietary Supplement Label Database in Italy: Focus of FoodEx2 Coding
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7019334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31892267
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12010089
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