By prohibiting all food health benefit claims without European Food Safety Authority authorization, EFSA has replaced a vibrant marketplace of ideas with a vast wasteland where useful information concerning the potential health benefits of food ingredients is kept from the market. EFSA thus repeats a basic, historic error, one condemned as anathema to freedom and progress over 250 years ago by the leading legal minds and rights advocates of the late Enlightenment Era.
By doing so, EFSA now…