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Revision of FSA guidance to compliance with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on food

Consultation published by The Food Standards Agency View original »

The Agency seeks views on draft updated guidance to compliance with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on food.

The Agency published the first version of guidance to compliance with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 in April 2008, following consultation in 2007. The guidance aims to help food business operators making nutrition or health claims comply with the Regulation, and provide a tool for enforcement bodies to help ensure consistent and proportionate application of the Regulation.

That guidance includes a commitment to provide further guidance on recommendations or endorsements by national associations of medical, nutrition or dietetic professionals and health related charities. This is necessary to provide charities and national associations and food businesses working with these organisations with the information they need to comply with the Regulation, to ensure that compliant claims are made and consumers are not misled.

Stakeholders have also asked for some sections of the guidance to be made clearer or elaborated upon, for example where there have been differences of opinion on the interpretation of Article 12(c) of the Regulation. The guidance also needs to be updated in light of discussions with UK stakeholders and other Member States on some other interpretive issues and to reflect the fact that progress that has been made in implementing the Regulation, for example some transition periods and deadlines laid down by the Regulation that were mentioned in the guidance have now passed.

Timeframe

This consultation started on 15th December 2009 and ended on 23rd March 2010.

Consultation Documents

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