Was NIH MVM Conference the Grand Slam?
var era_rc = { ERADomain: ‘npicenter.firstlightera.com’ }; By Len Monheit A few weeks ago, industry received another series of blows with fallout from the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements, which concluded, among other things, that there is inadequate information available about the role of vitamins and minerals in disease prevention or cure and that the safety of these products requires further investigation. Media pickup of the conference outcomes was certainly, in general not favorable, and some of the communications even made the usual observations regarding inadequate supplement regulation. A number of groups issued responses to the published outcomes, but the effects in stalling or altering either headlines or public takeaway were minimal at best. There is a battle being fought – and we are losing. Some have suggested that the conference outcomes were a done deal before it was even convened, and that bias, including study and personnel select
