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Narrative Synthesis of Health Effects of Potential Dietary Fibre Components - 13th October 2008

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The Food Standards Agency commissioned a team at the MRC Human Nutrition Research unit , Cambridge to undertake a "Narrative Synthesis of Health Effects of Potential Dietary Fibre Components" following the guidelines outlined in the SACN framework for the evaluation of evidence. This report is the background paper that was used to enable SACN to produce a position statement on dietary fibre.

A copy of the report summary can be downloaded at the link above.

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Draft SACN position statement on dietary fibre & health and the dietary fibre definition - August 2008

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