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The evolution of Europe’s health claims system
07-Sep-2009 - In part two of a series on the European nutrition and health claims regulation, we take a look into the past to scrutinize the reasons for its inception and wonder whether it is meeting its goals.
Health claims focus
Timeline of key EU health claim opinions
04-Sep-2009 - In the first of a special four-part series, NutraIngredients constructs a timeline of key opinions issued by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) since it got the ball rolling back in August last year.
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.
FSANZ sees reasons to approve new GM soy
02-Sep-2009 - Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has published a second assessment report on the potential use of a herbicide-tolerant soybean line in food products, giving its preferred option of approval.
News in brief
Cantox plans seminar on novel foods and additives
01-Sep-2009 - Regulatory consultant Cantox is planning a seminar on key changes to regulations on food ingredients and additives in the EU, including the update on novel foods regulation.
Letter to the editor
Folic acid: Why mandatory fortification is vital
27-Aug-2009 - Relying on voluntary fortification of grain products with folic acid is not sufficient to ensure adequate intakes and relieve the burden of birth defects, says an eminent British professor.
Weekly comment
Folic acid: Old women and children first!
24-Aug-2009 - Look at the globe and you’d be hard pressed to find two countries further apart than Ireland and New Zealand. But they stand side-by-side on the folic acid fortification issue – it is not needed.
Court finds Welsh company guilty of novel foods breach
21-Aug-2009 - Welsh supplements company, Asphalia Food Products Ltd, has been found guilty of using an unauthorised herbal ingredient in products marketed to assist sleep because it did not have novel foods approval.
High-dose supplements fight taken to EC president
20-Aug-2009 - UK-based food supplements lobby group, Consumers for Health Choice (CHC), has launched a kit to help consumers, manufacturer, retailers and practitioners personally envoy their pro high-dose food supplement messages to European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso.
Austrian supplements infringe isoflavones patent
19-Aug-2009 - An Austrian court has ruled against a red clover food supplement for making misleading menopausal claims in breach of a European health indications patent held by the Australian firm, Novogen.
Rosehip extract censored over bone health claims
19-Aug-2009 - UK supplements company, Goldshield Healthcare Direct, has run foul of the advertising watchdog there for making misleading joint health claims in full-page national newspaper adverts about a rosehip extract.
News in brief
HFMA tops approved supplement nutrient source list
14-Aug-2009 - The UK Health Food Manufacturers’ Association (HFMA) submitted more approved vitamin and mineral dossiers than any other group to the soon-to-be-finalised positive list of the European Union Food Supplements Directive (FSD), it has revealed.
EU tomato extract health claim wording gets user-friendly treatment
13-Aug-2009 - UK start-up Provexis is confident the European Commission, in consultation with member states, will issue consumer-friendly wording for its tomato extract blood circulation health claim.
EFSA provides guidance on food enzymes safety evaluation
13-Aug-2009 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a guidance document outlining what information industry needs to provide for the safety of food enzymes to be assessed.
EU lycopene ADI discussions to continue
12-Aug-2009 - The Food Standards Agency in the UK says lycopene levels – at least for the carotenoid’s use as a food colour – are under review at EU level.
News in brief
Denmark proposes vitamin D fortification
12-Aug-2009 - Denmark has backed a Swedish scheme that sees voluntary vitamin D milk fortification up to 10 per cent of recommended daily intakes (RDIs).
Regulatory approval to boost EU vitamin K2 market
12-Aug-2009 - The formal European Union approval of vitamin K2 as a safe food ingredient in foods and food supplements will benefit Norwegian supplier, Natto Pharma, both in Europe and abroad, the company says.
JECFA lycopene additive approval could influence EU levels
11-Aug-2009 - The recent approval of tomato extract-derived lycopene as a food additive by international body, JECFA, could influence a rethink of Accepted Daily Intakes (ADI) in Europe, according to world-leading Israeli supplier, Lycored.
EFSA Health Claim Opinion
EFSA accepts bone health claim for calcium, vitamin D
10-Aug-2009 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has accepted a health claim linking calcium and vitamin D to bone health in older women, but said there is insufficient evidence to support the proposed dosage levels.
Weekly comment
FDA’s Commissioner Hamburg: Beefing up US food safety
10-Aug-2009 - It looks like the FDA has finally got some muscle. Never mind new legislation – if anything can prevent America acquiring a weedy reputation for food safety, it’s the might of Dr Margaret Hamburg.
ASA censors ads for prebiotic-fortified infant formula
07-Aug-2009 - The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that an advertisement for Aptamil Follow On infant formula may not continue to be broadcast because it implies it can stop children from catching colds.
EFSA rejects lycopene-whey heart health claim; company set for fight
06-Aug-2009 - Cambridge Theranostics has vowed to confront the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) over its rejected lycopene-whey/arterial health claim, after the assessor found its dossier wanting.
UK supplements company rapped over lutein eye health claims
05-Aug-2009 - UK supplements manufacturer, Nature’s Best, has been rapped for making unsubstantiated claims that food supplements containing 10mg of lutein and berry extracts can protect the eyes.
News in brief
EU omega-3 content labelling debate rolls on
04-Aug-2009 - A recent European Commission committee meeting has failed to reach any conclusions about mooted omega-3 nutrition labelling across the European Union bloc.
EFSA issues plant stanol/sterol health claims advice
03-Aug-2009 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued an opinion on plant sterol and plant stanol ingredients to assist risk managers across the European Union to implement cholesterol-lowering claims.
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