Health Claims

EFSA health claims standards are ‘too high’

26-Aug-2008 By Elaine Watson

Food manufacturers could struggle to substantiate generic health claims about dairy products, wholegrain cereals and fruit and veg if regulators will...

Research will help firms support health claims

11-Aug-2008 By Rick Pendrous

Food manufacturers should be able to make far more scientifically based health claims for their products, if a series of research products dealing...

How do you like them apples?

21-Jul-2008

They may not be exotic, but their health benefits are legion. Could apples be the new superfruit?

It's time for tea at Unilever as centre of excellence for drinks opens

28-May-2008

Research on product stability, health claims for catechins and L-theanines and developing the aroma of its teas will be priorities for Unilever's...

Is there such a thing as a bad food?

26-Mar-2008

The process of developing nutrition profiles to restrict nutrition and health claims on foods moved forward a step recently with the publication of...

Botanicals health claims hang in the balance

08-Dec-2007 By Elaine Watson

The European Botanical Forum (EBF) will meet representatives from the European Commission (EC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) tomorrow...

European Food Safety Authority: we'll assess health claims by our deadline ... hopefully

27-Nov-2007

The expert panel tasked with assessing health claims under the EU Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation may have to outsource large chunks of the...

Supplement manufacturers call for broader evidence for health claims

26-Oct-2007 By Rick Pendrous

Health claims cannot purely be based on evidence from human intervention studies as proposed in the latest draft recommendations from an...

Drowning in a sea of rules

23-Jul-2007

Proving that food can be good for you can prove bad for business, says Dr Mark Tallon

Eleventh hour solution for children’s health claims

02-Jul-2007

A last minute intervention from Brussels has taken health claims about children out of legal limbo as the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation...

Weed out false food claims

27-Feb-2007

It is that time of year when one starts venturing into the great outdoors more often and contemplating the garden. Leafing through a plant catalogue...

EFSA wins more funds as its workload mushrooms

05-Feb-2007 By Rick Pendrous

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to receive substantially more funding this year to cope with its increasing workload, which will now...

European vote leaves GI claims in a nutritional no-man's land

29-May-2006

The glycaemic index (GI) appears to be stuck in legal limbo following a vote in the European Parliament on the controversial nutrition and health...

Crucial health claims vote this week

15-May-2006 By Elaine Watson

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote this week on the controversial European nutrition and health claims proposal at a plenary meeting...

Manufacturers could miss positive health claims boat

06-Mar-2006 By Rick Pendrous

Manufacturers across Europe face lengthy delays and extra costs in getting approval for their food and drink products, if they miss a deadline for...

GI-blues for ingredients firms

30-Aug-2005 By Elaine Watson

The low-glycaemic index (GI) revolution could be over before it even begins unless the industry persuades decision makers in Brussels that the term...

Healthy food claims row gives Europe one fat legal headache

11-May-2005 By Susan Birks

Dairy industry in race to endorse products before the axe falls

Health claim ban would stunt development, claims Unilever

07-Feb-2005 By Rick Pendrous

EC's proposed brake on health claims could undermine sales

Tailored to health

17-Nov-2004 By Susan Birks

With high fat, sugary and salty convenience foods under fire, healthy ingredients could not be more crucial. Susan Birks previews the new trends at this month's Healthy Ingredients Europe show