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R429-Guidelines

23 Jun COMMENT: A view on R429’s Guidelines – implications in SA’s new draft food labelling regulations

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When R429, the new draft food advertising and labelling proposals descended on the SA food-bev industries on May 29, the Guidelines extensively referred to in the text were noticeable by their absence. This uncertainty was relieved a week later with a further 145 pages to...

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23 Jun COMMENT: A view on R429’s Guidelines – implications in SA’s new draft food labelling regulations

Posted at 15:04h in Food Labelling Regulations by Brenda 0 Comments
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When R429, the new draft food advertising and labelling proposals descended on the SA food-bev industries on May 29, the Guidelines extensively referred to in the text were noticeable by their absence. This uncertainty was relieved a week later with a further 145 pages to...

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16 Feb About the Nutrient Profile Calculator for health claims

Posted at 07:56h in Food Labelling Regulations by admin 0 Comments
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The NPM Calculator, which is basically a software application, will likely be used in South Africa to determine whether a food product may make any kind of health claim on its label....

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Healthy aging

28 Jun Aging population focused on foods to preserve health now

Posted at 07:53h in Food Trends 2012 by admin 0 Comments
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The rising population of aging health-conscious consumers is driving demand for food products that support good health now, as well as medicinal treatment for conditions that arise in later years, according to a panel discussion at the Institute of Food Technologists...

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ORAC database

14 Jun USDA scraps ORAC database

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The USDA’s Nutrient Data Laboratory  (NDL) has removed the USDA Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) Database for Selected Foods from its website due to mounting evidence that shows the values indicating antioxidant capacity have no relevance to the effects of specific ...

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POM Wonderful

23 May POM, Not So Wonderful: Judge rules against its health claims

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A US federal administrative judge has ruled that the pomegranate juice maker POM Wonderful isn’t all that - but both sides have claimed victory....

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Probiotics

13 Feb EU: “Probiotics category could disappear,” Danone spokesman

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Preparing for the worst under the European Union’s uber-strict health claims regime, a Danone spokesman says the company may have to concede defeat and that the world’s highest-selling functional food category could disappear altogether....

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reading food labels

02 Feb Consumers globally struggle with nutritional labels and health claims

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A new Nielsen report has found that 59 percent of consumers around the world have difficulty understanding nutritional labels on food packaging and more than half (53%) consider themselves overweight....

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08 Jul More EFSA health opinions – many losers but several winners

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published 536 health claims in 73 opinions in the fifth batch of general function claims. There were several any positive opinions, but as expected, many more negative in the latest batch. Probiotic claims continued to be rejected and...

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Nigel Sunley

14 Apr Health claim tweaks to new labelling regulations expected

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The tough restrictions on health claims in R146 (the regulations governing labelling of foodstuffs in SA) are likely to be amended soon. But, cautions Nigel Sunley, a leading food industry consultant and part of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, the new parameters will not...

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Nigel Sunley

14 Apr Health claim tweaks to new labelling regulations expected

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The tough restrictions on health claims in R146 (the regulations governing labelling of foodstuffs in SA) are likely to be amended soon. But, cautions Nigel Sunley (left), a leading food industry consultant and part of the Consulting in Food Labelling team, the new parameters will...

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14 Apr EFSA rejects hundreds more health claims

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The European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) NDA panel has published the outcome of the evaluations of a fourth series of "general function" health claims proposed for use on food products. The panel rejected most of the 442 proposed health ...

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29 Sep Innova: Heart health product innovation continuing unabated

Posted at 08:46h in Food Trends 2009 by admin 0 Comments
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Despite ongoing regulatory issues with regard to health claims, the positioning of food and drink products on a heart health platform appears to be continuing unabated.

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