DECISION-MAKING IN THE NUTRITION SCIENCES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR ASSESSING HEALTH CLAIMS

In this paper we present an analysis of the role randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in regulation health claims (claims about additional benefits provided by foods). Currently there is a line thought nutrition sciences and that data from RCTs may be able to minimize, or even make superfluous, played expert knowledge decision making. We analyze limitations of, as well possible intervention judgment pharmacology nutrition. As result our analysis, argue both are necessary for generation claim regulation. far concerned, more complex than pharmacology, implying difficult effectively design execute. What latter means regulation, important pharmacology.