ECJ – FOOD CLASSIFICATION
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has given EU national courts some leeway to insist a product is regulated as a medicine, when sold as food in another EU member state. If the product contains pharmacological properties national courts can insist it is marketed under pharmaceuticals directive 2001/83.
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has given EU national courts some leeway to insist a product is regulated as a medicine, when sold as food in another EU member state. If the product contains pharmacological properties national courts can insist it is marketed under pharmaceuticals directive 2001/83.
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