New scientific evidence shows probiotics’ long-term safety needs to be looked at more closely after the good bacteria were newly assessed by a group of experts in food science, microbiology and other related medical fields.
Their goal was to find out discover how safe probiotics are given that they are increasingly being used not only by patients but by healthy consumers as food and dietary supplements.
Published in the journal Gut Microbes, the new review found that not all uses of probiotics are safe.
“While traditional probiotics have a good safety record based on many published clinical trials and history of safe use, not all uses of probiotics are equally safe,” Dr. Mary Ellen Sanders, one of the study authors, told the Medical Express. “Probiotics administered to at-risk populations must be fit-for-purpose, which in some cases requires additional safety scrutiny.”…