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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9725
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food

EFSA gives first series of opinions on scientific evidence for food health claims

Brussels, 25/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - Consulted by the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published, on 21 August, a first series of scientific opinions on claims setting out the scientific grounds for and the truth of health claims made by food producers, who put such claims forward in the hope that they will be authorised to include them, in full legality, on the labels of the food they produce. In some cases, adequate evidence to support the application was...