Market and product assessment of probiotic/prebiotic - Containing functional foods and supplements manufactured in South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 114-119

  Brink, M ^a   Senekal, M ^a   Dicks, L M T ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACNE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; COLON DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIAPER DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DYSPEPSIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLATULENCE; FOOD ALLERGY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTESTINE FLORA; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MARKETING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; YERSINIA;

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FOOD; FOOD LABELING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, FOOD; MARKETING; PROBIOTICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 13844310823     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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