Comments on: Europe “clarifies” basis for health claims

By: Iris Daniela Fanatean

Iris Daniela Fanatean — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:48:08 +0000

Pardon my typos- having problems with my spellcheck

By: Iris Daniela Fanatean

Iris Daniela Fanatean — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:45:20 +0000

Manuel, Barbara and Marion, in theory EFSA has more teeth, but here in Sweden health claims and ‘green-washing’ is very common.
A manufacturer can have any health claim without approval from EU for up to one year, so they another company wont steal their ‘idea’. Applying for a health claim grant is voluntarly, and usually they don’t until costumers complain to consumer care authority.
It all look very pretty on the paper, but thruth is that the swedish spike mat still can treat everything from cancer to depression, a year after people sent in the first few complaints on false advertising.

I do think that things are a bit better here than in US though, but probably because Scandinavians are generally sceptical to new things, no matter what

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:41:16 +0000

Excellent. Looking forward to seeing the same standards apply to anti-GMO claims. That should eliminate a lot of that badly done animal data.

By: Barbara Hart

Barbara Hart — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:48:09 +0000

By the way, fortunately EFSA stands for European Food Safety Authority and not only European Food Standards Agency.

By: manuel

manuel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:56:37 +0000

even with their problems it appears that EFSA has more teeth than the FDA.

By: À propos des allégations de santé - Un article de Le Blog d’Albert Amgar

À propos des allégations de santé - Un article de Le Blog d’Albert Amgar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:09 +0000

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