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Safety of selected dietary supplements with regard to the content of food additives IV.
Tížková, Jana ; Pokladníková, Jitka (advisor) ; Marešová, Helena (referee)
DIPLOMA THESIS: Safety of selected dietary supplements with regard to the content of food additives SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PHARMACY DEPARTMENT, FACULTY OF PHARMACY IN HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ, CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE AUTHOR: Jana Tížková SUPERVISOR: PharmDr. Jitka Pokladníková, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION: Usage of dietary supplements is increasing each year. But with this trend there are also concerns about their possible damaging influence, mostly due to present food additives. I have decided to map safety of dietary supplements from food additives point of view, because of spare information about their potential harmfulness. OBJECTIVE: Goal of this work is to evaluate safety of bestselling immune system support according to food additives that they contain and analysis of most commonly occurring harmful additives influence on human health. METHODOLOGY: List of bestselling dietary supplements was gathered from one of pharmaceutical chain brand. Data came from diverse list of dietary supplements, from which I have chosen those with supporting effect on immune system. They contain mostly substances gathered from Echinacea plants, specifically Echinacea angustifolia, pallida, purpurea, mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, also those containing Probiotics, Royal jelly and mixture of oligosaccharides, nucleotides and...
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