Type 2 Diabetes

Company seeks FDA approval of health claims for chromium

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 26th, 2004

Nutrition 21, Inc., has filed a health claim petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting that the FDA allow use of eight dietary supplement health claims associating chromium picolinate supplementation with reduced risk of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and related disease conditions.

Approximately 95 million Americans have some degree of insulin resistance and almost 1 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed every year. Nutrition 21 holds patents for the therapeutic use of chromium picolinate in addressing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

FDA has accepted the health claim filing as complete and has initiated...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2004-01-26)

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