Fifteen Years of Regulating Nutrition and Health Claims in Europe: The Past, the Present and the Future
| Autor: | Alie de Boer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | FSE Campus Venlo, RS: FSE UCV Program - 2: Food Claims Centre Venlo (FCCV) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Level playing field European Food Safety Authority Food Safety DIETETIC PRODUCTS Nutritional Status Legislation Article FUNCTIONAL FOOD 03 medical and health sciences Politics Law Enforcement 0404 agricultural biotechnology Health claims on food labels Functional food Food Labeling LABELING INFORMATION Humans TX341-641 European Union Enforcement health care economics and organizations functional foods SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENTS Consumption (economics) 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics GUIDANCE Nutrition. Foods and food supply business.industry Authorization risk assessment EFSA PANEL 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Legislation Food Public relations TRENDS 040401 food science Europe nutrition Food SAFETY FRONT-OF-PACK business Nutritive Value European food law Forecasting DIETARY-SUPPLEMENTS Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients, Vol 13, Iss 1725, p 1725 (2021) Nutrients Volume 13 Issue 5 Nutrients, 13(5):1725. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu13051725 |
| Popis: | Suggestions that a food contains healthy ingredients or that it can provide beneficial effects upon consumption have been regulated in the EU since 2006. This paper describes the analysis of how this nutrition and health claim regulation has resulted in over 300 authorised claims and how the authorisation requirements and processes have affected the use of claims on foods. Five challenges are identified that negatively affect the current legislation dealing with nutrition and health claims: non-reviewed botanical claims (as well as on hold claims for infants and young children), the lack of nutrient profiles and the focus of claims on single ingredients, consumer understanding, research into health effects of nutrition and finally, enforcement. These challenges are shown to influence the goals of the regulation: protecting consumers from false and misleading claims and stimulating the development of a level playing field in the EU, to foster innovation. Tackling these political and scientific substantiation questions for health claims, together with continuously analysing the understanding and usage of claims by consumers and operators will ensure that the NHCR will stay effective, today and in the future. |
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