Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of
Reading, UK
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Food Law News - EU - 2016
DoH, 18 February 2016
CLAIMS - Update from the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on health claims, 18th February 2016
There was discussion on a number of health claims, on a number of applications for terms as generic descriptors, on the REFIT evaluation, and an AOB item on the use of the term “Probiotic” on foods. Your views are invited in relation to items 3 and 8 in particular.
The Update can be downloaded from this site along with two additional Commission documents on Lactitol.
The items included in the Update have the following headings:
- Discussion on a health claim related to hydroxyanthracene derivatives and improvement of bowel function (EFSA opinion Q-2013-00650)
- Update on draft Commission Regulation authorising certain health claims related to non-fermentable carbohydrates and maintenance of tooth mineralisation by decreasing tooth demineralisation; and to non-digestible carbohydrates and a reduction of post-prandial glycaemic responses (EFSA opinions Q-2013-00615, Q-2014-00073, Q-2014-00044)
- Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation authorising a health claim related to lactitol and maintenance of normal defecation (EFSA opinion Q-2015-00375)
- Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk, related to short-chain fructooligosaccharides from sucrose and maintenance of normal defecation (EFSA opinion Q-2015-00377)
- Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to the reduction of disease risk, related to Anxiofit-1 and reduction of subthreshold and mild anxiety (EFSA opinion Q-2015-00006)
- Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation refusing to authorise a health claim made on foods and referring to children's development and health, related to Equazen eye q® and improving reading ability (EFSA opinions: Q-2014-00462)
- Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation authorising a health claim made on foods and referring to children's development and health, related to vitamin D and normal function of the immune system (EFSA opinions: Q-2014-00826)
- Generic Descriptors – Discussion on a draft Commission Regulation concerning the first applications for generic descriptors
- REFIT Evaluation of a) Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on food with regard to nutrient profiles and health claims made on plants and their preparations and of b) the general regulatory framework for their use in foods
- AOB (a) Sugar content labelling on jams, etc (b) Use of term ‘Probiotic’
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