The UK Health Food Manufacturers’ Association (HFMA has issued guidance to help companies deal with the impending December 14, 2012, deadline when th

“Disappointed” Merck Consumer Healthcare says it will submit a summary of glucosamine science to a scientific journal, after its joint health claim ap

Changes in European Union food laws have caught industry hopping, says Alan Ruth, CEO of the Irish Health Trade Association. It could do well to look

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA health claims panel has given short shrift to an appeal by a Malta-based start-up urging it to revise a 2009

Europe’s largest pan-European food supplements group says only a major rethink of the way herbal extract science is treated under EU health claim laws

The substantiation and transference into law of varying kinds of data backing food supplements, herbal products and other healthy foods remains a majo

In a freewheeling panel discussion during the second afternoon of the Vitafoods Asia nutraceuticals and supplements show, regulations in food and pack

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ has given strength to EU health claim laws by backing health claims of “temporary or fleeting effects

With the December 14 enforcement of the EU's article 13 general function health claim list that includes 200+ approved claims and about 1500 rejection

Aggrieved companies and trade groups have already mounted legal actions against the EU’s strict health claim laws, but the regulation’s workings coul