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The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive is changing the face of the botanicals extracts and supplements sector – in the European Union at least. The requirement for herbals to demonstrate good science has never been more urgent as health claims scrutiny tightens and consumer interest heightens. |
Dispatches from FIE
Provexis enjoys fruits of health claims victory
19-Nov-2009 - Provexis chief executive officer, Stephen Moon tells Shane Starling why becoming the first company to achieve an article 13.5 proprietary health claim has been such a boon to his company.
Weekly comment
Life in a European health claims wasteland
09-Nov-2009 - Ka-CHING! Hear that? No it’s not the sound of overflowing cash registers as consumers throw endless wads of euros at scientifically-backed, healthy foods in greater numbers than ever before.
Threat of EU health claims legal challenge grows
06-Nov-2009 - Three of Europe’s largest food supplement and healthy product trade groups have issued a 17-page paper that lays out its many concerns with the scientific approach being taken by EFSA in regard to health claims.
Special edition: Healthy chocolate
Regulation: the rules governing healthy chocolate
23-Oct-2009 - In the final part of our series on healthy chocolate, NutraIngredients scans the regulatory landscape to see how the movement towards healthy cocoa offerings is being affected by the rules in some of the lands they are proliferating in.
Plant stanol and sterol claims now law in EU
23-Oct-2009 - Two of the three article 14 cholesterol-lowering health claim opinions relating to plant sterols and stanols have been written into the European Union legislature – along with 19 other claims.
Ocean Spray extends Pepsi partnership beyond cranberry
22-Oct-2009 - PepsiCo and Ocean Spray have added more single-serve juices and juice drinks to their three year-old sales and distribution agreement.
Special edition: Healthy chocolate
Supply: Sourcing heart healthy chocolate
22-Oct-2009 - In the third part of a special series on the health benefits of cocoa polyphenols, NutraIngredients looks at the sourcing and supply issues associated with ensuring antioxidant levels in chocolate.
Special edition: Healthy chocolate
Markets: functional chocolate finding its feet
20-Oct-2009 - In the first of a four-part special series, NutraIngredients.com dips its investigative strawberry into the world of healthy chocolate and finds a relatively embryonic sector still finding its way but buoyed by ever-more cocoa polyphenol science, exciting product innovation and increasing public interest.
Health claim rules gag freedom of speech, says EU lobby group
19-Oct-2009 - Pan-European better nutrition advocate, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), says the European Union health claims system is going way beyond its remit to protect consumer interests and curtailing freedom of speech.
July 2010: When EU health claim compliance reaches store shelves
15-Oct-2009 - The European Commission has set itself the goal of processing the 94 generic article 13.1 health claim opinions issued by EFSA recently by the end of January, meaning claim rulings could be enforceable at retail level by July, 2010.
UK warns against ‘herbal valium’
05-Oct-2009 - The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a public warning against botanical products containing aconite.
Mutual recognition key to overcoming trade barriers: EAS
29-Sep-2009 - The newly effective mutual recognition regulation has again been praised by experts in the nutritional food industry as a means to overcome the challenge of a lack of harmonisation for certain ingredients across Europe.
Naturex merger to double 2009 earnings
28-Sep-2009 - Naturex, the French-based botanicals giant that recently acquired the ingredients business of Spanish company, Natraceutical Group, will earn €185m in 2009 – up from its 2008 income of €93.2m, as it announced details of the deal.
Royal wedding sparks 'herbal valium' concern
23-Sep-2009 - The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has warned the public of the dangers of Aconite after media reports suggested a celebrity had taken the poisionous plant to reduce stress before her wedding to a member of the royal family
Fytexia expands on weight management boom
21-Sep-2009 - French herbal supplier, Fytexia, has moved into a new premises at its southern French base as it responds to growing demand for natural ingredients and attempts to gain high-level European GMP certification.
Chocolate may ease migraines: Study
17-Sep-2009 - Dietary supplements of cocoa may repress inflammatory responses in the brain linked to migraines, suggest results from an animal study.
Special edition: resveratrol
Regulation: Resveratrol from GRAS to novel foods
11-Sep-2009 - As with many relatively new ingredients, resveratrol has had to prove its safety and efficacy to gain regulatory approval in various markets since its widespread commercial availability in the early 1990s.
EFSA issues long-awaited herbal product safety guidelines
11-Sep-2009 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued long-awaited safety guidance for botanicals use in food supplements that proposes a lenient approach toward non-clinical and history-of-use data.
Menopausal herb wins EU herbal registration
09-Sep-2009 - UK start-up, Bio-Health, has won its second herbal products registration in a year for a sage product that reduces excessive sweating in post-menopausal women.
Barry Callebaut builds on Acticoa success
03-Sep-2009 - Barry Callebaut’s Acticoa blend of high-antioxidant cocoa and chocolate ingredients is being expanded across a range of products under Prestat’s Choxi+ brand in the UK.
Barry Callebaut builds on Acticoa success
03-Sep-2009 - Barry Callebaut’s Acticoa blend of high-antioxidant cocoa and chocolate ingredients is being expanded across a range of products under Prestat’s Choxi+ brand in the UK.
Release novel foods documents, rapped supplements maker tells FSA
03-Sep-2009 - A Welsh food supplements company is calling on the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) to release documents that may shed light on why a herb’s novel status was changed shortly before a court case it lost over illegal use of that same herb – Festuca arundinacea.
Australian state ponders energy drinks ban
03-Sep-2009 - Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is considering a ban on high caffeine energy drinks in the Red Bull-led sector, after its Primary Industries minister, Ian McDonald, highlighted products loaded with up to 15 times recommended caffeine limits.
Blueberry juice displays weight management benefits: Mouse study
02-Sep-2009 - Drinking a modified blueberry juice may reduce food intake and body weight, and offer weight management potential, suggest findings from a new study with mice.
Citrus hybrids may offer antioxidant-rich extracts for nutraceuticals
31-Aug-2009 - Crossing clementines and blood oranges may yield a new citrus hybrid with an enhanced content of antioxidant phytochemicals, according to new research from Europe.
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