FDA Will Mull Lifting Nutritive-Value Requirement For Functional Food Claims
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA will weigh the possibility of a "functional foods" regulatory scheme that expands the range of claims available to conventional food marketers, according to FDA General Counsel Sheldon Bradshaw
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