Call for Supplements to be regulated after research found 65% of products tested didn’t meet claims
The health and wellness industry is a multi-billion euro operation, but some areas such as supplements are unregulated.
Supplements can be marketed using various claims about the positive impact they can have on people’s health.
However, many have no demonstrable effects other than lightening your wallet.
Professor John Nolan from Waterford Institute of Technology found that 65% of the supplements he tested did not live up to their health claims.
He joined Alive and Kicking with Clare McKenna to discuss his research and outline his mission to bring certification and regulation to the sector.
His work focuses on how nutrients that live in the back of the eye, or the macula, are protectors for a disease called macular degeneration.
By being able to measure these nutrients, his team saw that when they looked at various supplements that are on the market, they did not meet their label claims.
