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Magnesium Brain Health Supplement Sold Across US Authorized As Novel Food In EU

 
• By Tom Gallen

Dietary supplement ingredient promising enhanced memory and mental clarity marketed widely across the US has been authorized for sale in Europe.

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Touted for its brain health benefits, including enhanced memory and mental clarity, magnesium L-threonate has been authorized as a novel food for use in dietary supplements sold in the EU.

Magnesium L-threonate – an organic salt made of l-threonic acid anion and magnesium ion – is marketed as a supplement ingredient under the name Magtein by California, US-based AIDP Inc....

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