
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Donohue, Diana 
T1  - Probiotics: issues of credibility and safety
JF  - Microbiology Australia
JO  - Microbiol. Aust.
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 24
IS  - 1
SP  - 18
EP  - 19
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MA03118 
N2  - People have believed for more than a century that live microorganisms in foods may benefit human health. More recently, probiotics have appealed to consumers who want nutritional products with added health attributes. The demonstration of efficacy in probiotics thus offers vast opportunities for the development of human and veterinary products. However, the addition of novel bacterial strains to foods and therapeutic products presents a challenge in safety assessment for regulatory authorities. Probiotic products which claim specific nutritional, functional or therapeutic characteristics blur the boundaries of what is a food, a diet supplement or a medicine. 
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