European Nutrition Groups Challenge EFSA Health Claims Policy
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
European industry trade associations file a lawsuit to block the implementation of what they call EFSA’s restrictive list of permitted health claims. The groups demand the annulment of the general function claim list and ask the EC to “correct the flaws in its approach.”
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