Health claims made on food

Misleading health claims for food products need to be banned.

After reading this study, two important ethical issues have emerged first; the claims made by company are exaggerated and second, results seem to be generalized to all children without any regard to the study results. Methodological and ethical issues related to the study are; not declaring conflict of interest and source of support by authors, unclear randomization, not following intention to ...

Health Claims for Food Supplements and Degree of Evidence.

jects (functional changes, pain, stiffness, width of the joint space). Starting from this point of view, it must be stressed that the ‘convincing evidence’ from the general healthy population in the classical sense required is simply not possible in the field of joint health with the means available to the possibilities of research today. In contrast, a large number of high-quality research res...

MAKING SMART CHOICES: HEALTH CLAIMS, REGULATION, AND FOOD PACKAGING by

Health claims in the labelling and marketing of food products:

Since 1990 certain health claims in the labelling and marketing of food products have been allowed in Sweden within the food sector’s Code of Practice. The rules were developed in close dialogue with the authorities. The legal basis was a decision by the authorities not to apply the medicinal products’ legislation to ‘‘foods normally found on the dinner table’’ provided the rules defined in the...

Public Interest Comment on The Food and Drug Administration’s Food Labeling: Trans Fatty Acids in Nutrition Labeling, Nutrient Content Claims, and Health Claims; Proposed Rule

The Regulatory Studies Program (RSP) of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is dedicated to advancing knowledge of regulations and their impacts on society. As part of its mission, RSP produces careful and independent analyses of agency rulemaking proposals from the perspective of the public interest. Thus, the program’s comments on the FDA’s proposed revisions to nutrition labeling ...