On average, the Japanese spend twice as much per person on functional foods as Americans and nearly three times as much as Europeans.

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This is a little reminder of the levels of regulation drugs have to go through that many other products making health claims, like supplements or functional foods, do not.

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Huang is also working on so-called functional foods.

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