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Health claims register enters European Parliament as veto calls rise

Health claims register enters European Parliament as veto calls rise

By Shane Starling

Paola Testori Coggi, the director general of the EC’s Health and Consumer Health Directorate (DG Sanco), yesterday presented a health claims register containing 222 approvals and about 2000 rejections to a European Parliament (EP) committee, as lobbying...

Yakult won't be making any claims about battling chest infections in the near future

Yakult: Health claim rejection doesn’t affect our claims

By Shane Starling

Japanese probiotics giant Yakult says the writing into law of its rejected EU health claim for upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) benefits won’t alter its core sell in European markets that remained, “stable”.

Popular in the United States, sensory claims, made for products such as Coors Light, are beginning to appear in the UK

Food firms look to sensory claims

By Freddie Dawson and Mike Stones

Frustrated food and drink manufacturers are considering sensory claims in preference to health claims; few of which have been approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

What role with MEPs play in assessing EFSA health claim opinions?

EHPM: MEP health claim support is “encouraging”

By Shane Starling

A Brussels-based pan-European trade group says it is encouraged by interactions with MEPs who are set to play an active role in scrutinising and potentially modifying controversial European Union health claim rejections.

Astaxanthin won't help protect the skin from UV damage, says EFSA

EFSA health claim opinion

Astaxanthin health claim rejection “not a big surprise”

By Shane Starling

Astaxanthin suppliers have expressed disappointment at last week’s rejection of the carotenoid by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claims panel, but said the rejection was not unexpected given the agency’s treatment of other carotenoids...

EC moves to block health claim withdrawals

EC moves to block health claim withdrawals

By Shane Starling

The European Commission and European Union member states are moving to halt the flood of nutrition and health claim withdrawals in a bid to preserve what it is calling “transparency in the regulation”.

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