date:Nov 15, 2012
ECJ had the chance to give us a definition but for some reason it missed the chance, or refused to do it.
At present, the EFSA regulation states a health claim is any statement that suggests or implies a relationship between a food, or one of its constituents.
So far, 241 claims have been accepted, with 1,719 refused. But Meier even questioned if these had a strong enough legal basis in statute.
The regulation is not the law itself, but the interpretation of the law. From a legal point of vie