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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8507

18 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/consumers
Publishers and brewers react against proposed regulation on use of claims on nutritional properties and health benefits of foodstuffs

Brussels, 17/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Publishers Council (EPC) has written to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, urging him to "evaluate seriously the implications of proposed restrictions in advertisements for foodstuffs and beverages on Press freedom". We recall that the Commission's proposal, which was presented on Wednesday (see EUROPE of 17 July, p.7), obliges the nutritional properties and health benefits claimed by a particular foodstuff to be...

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