date:Aug 27, 2012
health claim, such as one relating to probiotics, it will have to pass the health test first, and then substantiate the claim. The proposal to let industry self-substantiate these claims and provide its own evidence is opposed by consumer and health groups as putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
Clare Hughes, the NSW Cancer Council's nutrition program manager, said health claims on unhealthy foods could ''lead consumers to purchase a product that they think is healthier than one that is