Nutrition 21 Inc. (NXXI:NASDAQ) is a nutritional bioscience company and the maker of chromium picolinate-based and omega-3 fish oil-based supplements with health benefits substantiated by clinical research. The company holds more than 30 patents for nutritional products and their uses.
Nutrition 21’s portfolio of health and wellness products include: Iceland Health Chromax, Iceland Health Joint Relief, Iceland Health Advanced Memory Formula, Iceland Health Maximum Strength Omega-3, and Diabetes Essentials. The company distributes its products nationally through more than 29,000 major food, drug, and super-center stores throughout the US and internationally.
On September 11th, 2008 Nutrition 21 reported that study results released by the US government’s National Toxicology Program support the safety of short-term and long-term use of Chromax chromium picolinate. Multiple safety studies were performed in animals, including a two-year study using daily dose of chromium picolinate equivalent to 50,000 times the common human dose found in supplements.
Nutrition 21 vice-president James Komorowski, M.S., concluded, “No other form of nutritional chromium on the market today has been as thoroughly tested as Chromax chromium picolinate. We believe that these results validate our operational philosophy of combining high quality science and ground-breaking technology to develop superior nutritional products.”
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