EFSA ENDS ITS GENERAL FOOD HEALTH CLAIMS REVIEW – BUT HOW WILL FOOD INDUSTRY BE AFFECTED?
August 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS and KEITH NUTHALL
AFTER three years of painstaking scientific work, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has finished assessing 2,758 health claims made by European Union (EU) food manufacturers about their products.
The companies appear not to have covered themselves in glory. A breathtaking 80% of food-related general health claims were found by EFSA's panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies to be either plain wrong, or not proved by documentary evidence supplied.
Given many of these claims are currently in use, the next ...
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