The term ‘nutraceutical’, originally coined in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine (DeFelice, 1989), is a portmanteau of the words ‘nutrition’ (indicating a nourishing food or food component) and ‘pharmaceutical’ (with reference to a drug), the concept of nutraceutical and potential has been described and widely assessed in the following years since 1995.
Nutraceuticals - shedding light on the grey area between pharmaceuticals and food / Santini, A.; Novellino, E.. - In: EXPERT REVIEW OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY. - ISSN 1751-2433. - 11:6(2018), pp. 545-547. [10.1080/17512433.2018.1464911]
Nutraceuticals - shedding light on the grey area between pharmaceuticals and food
Santini A.
;Novellino E.
2018
Abstract
The term ‘nutraceutical’, originally coined in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine (DeFelice, 1989), is a portmanteau of the words ‘nutrition’ (indicating a nourishing food or food component) and ‘pharmaceutical’ (with reference to a drug), the concept of nutraceutical and potential has been described and widely assessed in the following years since 1995.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
