Soy Protein Safety Concerns Lack Human Adverse Effect Data - FDA
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Challenges to the safety of soy protein-containing foods failed to provide documented evidence of adverse effects in humans or any information "about actual levels of potentially harmful components or about threshold levels for adverse effects in humans," FDA says in its approved soy protein health claim.
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