Help consumers make informed decisions about the preparations, foods, and botanicals they use for health.

The Journal of Dietary Supplements (formerly the Journal of Nutraceuticals, Functional & Medical Foods) has been retitled to reflect the bold departure from a traditional scientific journal presentation to a leading voice for anyone with a stake in dietary supplements. The journal addresses important issues that meet the broad range of interests from researchers, regulators, marketers, educators, and health professionals from academic, governmental, industry, healthcare, public health, and consumer education sectors. This vital tool not only presents scientific information but interprets it—helping you more readily pass it on to your students, patients, clients, or company.

The refocused journal offers many recurring columns so that you can easily find the reports that best meet your professional and educational needs. These sections include:

• the Health Professional's Corner
  
• an Industry Spotlight
  
• a Special Topics section
  
• the Educator's/Dietician's Corner
  
• a Regulatory Corner
  
• short updates of recent interesting research published/presented elsewhere
  
• book reviews

The Journal of Dietary Supplements takes a professional scientific approach to presenting fully referenced research papers with an important effort toward “in the trenches” applications of that research. The refocusing of the journal could not be more crucial as the dietary supplement industry continues to rack up billions in sales despite high rates of consumer confusion and a lack of third-party research on dietary supplement ingredients and products. This journal provides a much-needed forum to help guide the development of the dietary supplement industry as it establishes itself as a science-based entity.