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LATEST NEWS
The World Gastroenterology Organization publishes "Practice Guideline: Probiotics and Prebiotics." Click here.
“Probiotics: Their Impact on Human Health” issue paper coauthored by Sanders, Gibson, Gill and Guarner and published by the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology is now available free of charge. Click here.
The Executive Summary of the National Institutes of Health conference on Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Advances in Prebiotic and Probiotic Research held December 11-12, 2007 can be viewed at http://www.dnrc.nih.gov/highlights/gmappr.shtml.
ISAPP convenes 6th meeting November 9-11, 2008 in London Ontario, Canada. This is a restricted, by-invitation meeting and will include keynote lectures and breakout discussion groups covering topics of safety, efficacy, clinical impact and emerging technologies as they relate to probiotics and prebiotics. For information, contact Mary Ellen Sanders (mes@mesanders.com).
ILSI convenes prebiotic and probiotic task forces. The mission of the Probiotics Task Force is to assess the physiological efficacy of probiotics to guide the scientific substantiation of health claims on probiotics. The mission of the Prebiotics Task Force is to provide the basis for assessment of the physiological efficacy of prebiotics.
Probiotics are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amount confer a health benefit on the host (FAO 2001). Prebiotics are non-digestible (by the host) food ingredients that have a beneficial effect through their selective metabolism in the intestinal tract. (Gibson, G.R., Probert, H.M., van Loo, J.A.E., Rastall, R.A. and Roberfroid, M.B. 2004. Dietary modulation of the human colonic microbiota: Updating the concept of prebiotics. Nutrition Research Reviews 17, 259-275). |
Our Mission To engender and disseminate information on high quality, multidisciplinary, scientific investigation in the fields of probiotics and prebiotics, and to advance the development of scientifically substantiated, health-promoting probiotic and prebiotic products worldwide. &image=img/rotator/infantis002.gif) Photos courtesy of Prof. Lorenzo Morelli, Instituto di Microbiologia, Piacenza, Italy |
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