EFSA provides scientific advice on nutrition and health claims
Dated: 29 February 2008
The Nutrition Panel of Europe’s food safety watchdog has delivered scientific advice to assist the European Commission and Member States in defining nutrient profiles – conditions concerning the nutrient content of foods – for foods bearing nutrition and health claims.
The Panel has defined scientific criteria that could be utilised by EU policy makers in assessing which foods may carry nutrition and health claims.
It concluded that the main scientific consideration in establishing nutrient profiles is the potential of a food to adversely affect overall dietary balance, as defined by nutrient intake recommendations.
The dietary role of different food groups must also be taken into account and the nutrient profiles should be consistent with food-based dietary guidelines established in EU Member States.
EFSA is developing a new tool to test different nutrient profile scenarios - a tailor-made food composition database compiled in co-operation with Member States and industry.
The Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims on foods requires that foods bearing nutrition and health claims must meet certain nutritional requirements or so-called “nutrient profiles.”
These profiles will also help ensure that consumers who utilise claims to guide healthy diet choices, and who may perceive foods bearing claims as having a nutritional or health advantage, are not misled as to their overall nutritional value.
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