Posts tagged 'food-claims'
Clarity on food labels – mission impossible?
Fabienne Garceau29 September 2011
Last week’s announcement [http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/UK-scraps-sell-by-dates-on-food-products] that UK food manufacturers have been asked to remove ‘display until’ and ’sell-by’ date labels from food packaging takes us one step closer to clearer, more user-friendly food labels. Or does it?
According to research carried out by the Food and Drink Federation [http://www.fdf.org.uk/news.aspx?article=5504], shoppers continue to be confused by the difference [...]
Don’t forget the consumer with food claim curbs
Rosemary Brook6 October 2009
The food industry has been thrown into turmoil by the EU’s complex and protracted new process for assessing and approving nutrition and health claims, which came into force in 2006 after almost two decades in gestation. The majority of claims submitted to date have been rejected by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) for failing [...]
