REJECTED EU HEALTH CLAIMS TO BE RETURNED TO EFSA FOR RE-EVALUATION
November 1st, 2011
BY PETER DA COSTA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is expecting to be asked to re-evaluate up to 200 food health claims that it rejected in the past three years as being based on insufficient information, just-food can reveal.
EFSA spokeswoman Lucia de Luca said today that European Commission and EU member states had requested the do-overs after being lobbied by companies whose claims EFSA had rejected. In August the agency said 80% of the 2,758 claims it had assessed were either wrong or based on weak evidence.
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