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health claims legal challenge remains a possibility
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in the fourth excerpt from a nutraingredients health claims roundtable, our experts discuss the possibility that the 2006 nutrition and health claims regulation may end up being challenged in an institution like the european court of justice. at the table were henry dixon, the owner of uk-based food industry pr firm, barrett dixon bell; patrick coppens, a regulatory expert from european advisory services in brussels and cedric bourges from the french claims consultancy, nutraveris. coppens said the threat of a challenge was always going to exist if an increasingly desperate industry felt it was being damaged unfairly by the regulation. “the way the law has been written and the way the law has been implemented is far from ideal and leaves a lot open to discussion,” coppens said. “if you are with your back against the wall and you think that is unjustified because you think the law is badly written and implemented it is your fundamental democratic right to go to the courts so why would a company not do that?” “wherever there are diversions in implications there is the possibility to ask the courts what is the correct interpretation. i don’t know that it is going to happen but it may happen.” learning process “what we are trying to do now is solve this learning process in the best way possible and that explains the delay in the number of decisions taken by the european commission because it is taking its time to reflect on all possible options and consequences before taking decisions. also for the commission it is a learning process.” dixon added that any measures to delay the “piecemeal adoption” of claims in batches would add to the fairness of the regulation’s implementation. “if everything could be adopted at the end of the process that would give everybody more time to sort things out,” he said. “it would remove some of the anti-competitive issues that have been raised. it would give more time for national governments and industry trade bodies to sort things out in a rational and sensible way.” coppens added that the way in which the first batch of efsa opinions published last october passed into the law was crucial to how the rest of the process may pan out. “it is very important and sets a precedent and that explains why it is so slow. the member states are also very intensively discussing this and that takes time.” batch themes bourges observed that the batches appear to have a thematic bent which could have a moderating effect on any economic distortion that may eventuate if and when the opinions become law. “on a batch-by-batch analysis they seem to focus on application. october 2009 could have been called the joint batch and february 2010 could have been called the antioxidants batch. publishing in batches remains a big problem but companies selling say joint health products will be facing the same problem at the same time.”
Source :foodanddrinkeurope.com
Date :
19
August
2010
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a new video from laboratory equipment specialist thermo fisher scientific is designed to improve food safety by showcasing the benefits of its tracefinder analytical software. intended for food safety and environmental testing laboratories, the video shows how tracefinder software allows users to reduce method development time from hours or days to minutes. dipankar ghosh, the company’s head of environmental and food safety marketing group, told foodproductiondaily.
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the agency has today written to all local authorities in england, wales and northern ireland to tell them about local launches of the national food hygiene rating scheme (fhrs), its branding and other developments. fhrs will help consumers choose where to eat out or shop for food by giving them information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafes, takeaways, hotels, supermarkets, and other places they eat out and buy food.
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washington (ap) - seafood from the gulf of mexico is being put under the microscope like no other kind on the market, with fish, shrimp and other catches ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil - far more reassuring than that sniff test that made all the headlines. and while the dispersant that was dumped into the massive oil spill has consumers nervous, health regulators contend there\'s no evidence it builds up in seafood - although they\'re working to create a test for it, just in case.
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formulating soft drinks with food gums like pectin and propylene glycol alginate may protect enamel from the detrimental effects of citric acid, suggests a new study from germany. the food gums could form a protective coating on the enamel surface of teeth, thereby protecting them from the dissolution and softening of enamel, according to findings published in dental materials.
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do you want a statin with that cheeseburger and milkshake? touting pharmaceuticals as the neutralisers of fast food is not the answer to unhealthy diets and even the suggestion sends out the wrong message. last week, researchers from imperial college london published a study in the american journal of cardiology with the conclusion that handing out statins with a cheeseburger could neutralise the detrimental effects of daily fast food consumption.
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the american dietetic association (ada) recently published a position paper that urges local schools and their surrounding communities to work together to improve the nutritional quality of food in schools. the ada is also advocating for better nutrition education programs to assist students in making healthy lifestyle choices.\"[w]hen nutrition education, physical activity and a healthful school environment are ensured, learning is enhanced and students develop lifelong, healthful eating habits,\" explains the ada in its paper.
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several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation\'s water supplies. but a new study has shown that major american food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemicals, and others, from the treated wastewater that farmers are applying to them.it is common practice for large-scale farm operations to dump billions of gallons of treated sewage and other recycled water on crops to help fertilize them.
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you may want to think twice about cooking that meat well-done, according to a new study out of the university of texas. researchers there have found that charring meat by frying, barbecuing or otherwise heavily cooking it can lead to the formation of cancer-causing chemicals in the meat.the study explains that people who eat well-done meat double their risk of developing bladder cancer when compared to people who eat meat on the rarer end of the spectrum.
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Coca.Cola
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PEPSI
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Mcdonald
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Nestle
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Mars
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Baskin & Robins
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Nutrika
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Mumika
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Chika
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