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Nutrition-related health effects of organic foods: a systematic review

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Dangour, Alan D, Lock, Karen, Hayter, Arabella, Aikenhead, Andrea, Allen, Elizabeth, Uauy, Ricardo·2010·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
DOI 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29269
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Background There is uncertainty over the nutrition-related benefits to health of consuming organic foods.Objective We sought to assess the strength of evidence that nutrition-related health benefits could be attributed to the consumption of foods produced under organic farming methods.Design We systematically searched PubMed, ISI Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, and Embase between 1 January 1958 and 15 September 2008 (and updated until 10 March 2010); contacted subject experts; and hand-searched bibliographies. We included peer-reviewed articles with English abstracts if they reported a comparison of health outcomes that resulted from consumption of or exposure to organic compared with conventionally produced foodstuffs.Results From a total of 98,727 articles, we identified 12 relevant studies. A variety of different study designs were used; there were 8 reports (67%) of human studies, including 6 clinical trials, 1 cohort study, and 1 cross-sectional study, and 4 reports (33%) of studies in animals or human cell lines or serum. The results of the largest study suggested an association of reported consumption of strictly organic dairy products with a reduced risk of eczema in infants, but the majority of the remaining studies showed no evidence of differences in nutrition-related health outcomes that result from exposure to organic or conventionally produced foodstuffs. Given the paucity of available data, the heterogeneity of study designs used, exposures tested, and health outcomes investigated, no quantitative meta-analysis was justified.Conclusion From a systematic review of the currently available published literature, evidence is lacking for nutrition-related health effects that result from the consumption of organically produced foodstuffs.

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  1. European Community Council Regulation. Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91. In: EEC, ed. Official journal of the European Union. Brussels, Belgium: Council Regulation (EC), 2007:1–23.

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Authors
Dangour, A. D., Lock, K., Hayter, A., Aikenhead, A., Allen, E., & Uauy, R.
Affiliations
University of London (GB)
ORCID
Venue
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-07
Volume
92
Issue
1
Pages
203-210
ISSN
0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3945/ajcn.2010.29269
OpenAlex
W2121874737
Cited by
208
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31
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FWCI
1.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Keywords
organic food, organic farming, conventional food, infantile eczema, dairy products, food exposure, health benefits of organic food
MeSH terms
Animals, Fruit, Humans, Insurance Benefits, Meat, Nutritive Value, Vegetables, Wine, Treatment Outcome, Patient Selection, Food, Organic

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