James Giese

FDA to loosen health claim standards
On December 18, recently installed Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan announced a new initiative that will provide consumers with improved nutrition information about foods and dietary supplements. The new initiative will require only that a “weight of the evidence” must exist in the scientific community to allow qualified health claims made on food and dietary supplement labels. FDA currently permits such claims for dietary supplements …




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