Anvisa want tougher rules for food supplements
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Thousands of Brazilians who consume dietary supplements to gain muscle mass and improve physical performance may have to consider other options. This week ends the period that the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) gave manufacturers to demonstrate the proposed new rules on public consultation to industry. The main change relates to labels, in order to indicate these products just for athletes. The Anvisa believes that these products do not provide benefits for most people. And there is no security on it, in fact, are free from risks. (Check out the main products)
The Anvisa athlete qualifies as "the individual exercise of high intensity in order to return or sports competition." Therefore, people who exercise only to the leisure, the improvement of health and aesthetics are out. And not just here that the barrier increases the abuse of supplements.
In the United States, where 114 million consume these products, including vitamins and herbal, the government wants to impose more restrictions and is requiring accuracy of FDA, the U.S. agency that regulates the sale of drugs and foods. In the first ten months of 2008, the FDA received 948 reports of health problems associated with dietary supplements, not necessarily caused directly by them. Nine deaths were registered, 64 cases of serious illnesses and 234 hospitalizations.
Experts fear increase in illegal sale
Antônia Aquino, manager of special products of Anvisa (www.anvisa.gov.br), says that public consultation is to review the ordinance of 13 January 1998 (with resolution of 22 September 2005) that may need changes to be outdated. With new scientific research, more information about certain food products and we know that its impact on health may not be as good. This list, included, among other repositores hydroelectrolytic or isotonic, protein supplements and hypercaloric, and fat burners.
Take your questions with the nutritionist Roberta Lima, the National Confederation of Judo
The herbal and vitamins do not come that consultation because they are not advertised as a product to increase the metabolism or physical performance. Can help athletes and are consumed by them, but for people who have some shortfall or health problem, and enter into another category, says Antony.
In consultation - whose term ends on 13 - to Anvisa formed a group that includes health professionals and manufacturers to assess their own complaints and suggestions of the population. From there, the group accepts or discards the recommendations.
- They will not be prohibited or restricted because venda entering the food category, and Anvisa not require a supplement to be sold with a prescription, for example. But the labeling change to bring more information and warnings - explains Antony. (See the table of calories of food supplements)
The Anvisa only prohibits the sale of a product if it has no proven efficacy. But the manager says that those who practice exercises so sporadic, slight or moderate needs no supplements:
- Only athletes who have high calorie and loss can not restore it with food, they need supplements. A person with normal calorie expenditure does not need artificial product that restores the loss of electrolytes, carbohydrates or proteins. Just make balanced meals.
A product is prohibited by Anvisa conjugated linoleic acid, known in gyms as CLA (acronym in English). He did not meet the manufacturer promised, or the burning of fat more pronounced. For a product be approved, he must have their security and their purpose of use supported. But the BCAA, the English acronym for the product rich in branched-chain amino acids (isoleucine, leucine and valine), was removed from the query because there is not enough studies proving that it meets the promises. It can not be evaluated as a dietary supplement:
- We will reassess the BCAA to define your new category or see if he should be banned because it has no efficacy.
If no changes or if a majority of the suggestions in the query is discarded, the Anvisa will not make new resolution and the former will continue on. The nutritionist Roberta Lima, the academy Velox and the Brazilian Judo Confederation (CBJ), agrees with the proposals of Anvisa:
- Supplementation is banal, many prescribe and consume less without knowledge of its effects. It is common practice for years to reach the office asking to be taken to gain muscle mass. Are not interested in a balanced diet. Changing the label may create greater specificity.
Eduardo Meyer, professor of physical education, and consumes Whey Protein bars, protein, and agree that there should be more control. But he says that not only athletes who need the supplements:
- Practitioners of intensity of physical activity may need supplementation. For example, a person who likes to run and is not necessarily athlete does not always reset to their needs with food. But the consumer should be done with the guidance of nutritionist.
To Silvia Elena Mantovani, nutritionist of probiotic company, which manufactures supplements for sports nutrition, consultation Anvisa updates of some concepts of sports nutrition and, ultimately, accepts the caffeine and creatine as supplements to athletes. Furthermore, says that deregulates, without plausible explanation, the sale of BCAAs, traditional mind used by marathoners, runners and athletes:
- Recommendation of supplements for athletes not only makes sense, because any person who practices physical activity, aiming competitive or not, can benefit from the consumption of certain foods or ingredients in the amounts indicated above for the general population.
Gouvêa Carlos, president of the Brazilian Association of Industry and Dietary Foods for Special Purposes (Abiad), criticized the proposal. States that if there is change, the market will be reduced by up to ten times, encouraging smuggling.
- One consequence is the growing black market, because demand will be there. Inidôneas companies will find ways to import "informally." These products have no scientific or technical assistance, will not have labels in Portuguese and companies not collect such taxes.
Source: O Globo Online
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