Health Food Studies

Non-clinical Studies

Efficacy Studies

Below are some examples of the disease model animals available for food efficacy studies. INA also offers free advice and study design planning.

Improvement of insulin resistance
Reductive effects in hyperlipemia model animals
Reductive effects in hypertensive model animals
Bone loss inhibitory effects in ovariectomized osteoporosis models and osteopenia models prepared by sciatic neurectomy
Improvements to arthritis in arthrorheumatism model animals
Antitumor effects
Antistress effects

Safety Studies

All studies are GLP compliant and follow the relevant toxicity study guidelines for pharmaceuticals, as well as Japanese government regulations regarding Food for Specified Health Use (FOSHU, 1998 ).

Single dose toxicity
Repeated dose toxicity
Genotoxicity (Ames, chromosome aberration; CHL cell, human lymphocytes and micronucleus tests)
Reproductive and developmental toxicity