Report: Health Claims for Food, Drugs Deserve Same Scrutiny

Published On: May 13th, 2010

The recommendations are part of an IOM report looking at the larger issue of how biomarkers — things like cholesterol levels or tumor size — should be judged in studies and health and safety claims.

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Report: Health Claims for Food, Drugs Deserve Same Scrutiny

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