New Regulation No. 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods01/04/07 / cata_european-union-news

Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods was re-published in its corrected form on 18 January 2007 and applies from 1 July 2007. This is the first piece of legislation to specifically deal with nutrition and health claims and aims to provide a higher level of consumer protection as well as harmonise legislation across the EU to facilitate intra-Community trade. The regulation controls nutrition and health claims by means of positive lists of authorised claims that can be made on food together with the criteria a product must meet to use them. The regulation's annex contains the list of permitted nutrition claims and the regulation establishes processes for compiling the list of authorised health claims. It also requires the European Commission to establish nutrient profiles as criteria that foods must meet to make claims.