MEP Marian Harkin
A new Regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods could effectively gag health-food shop owners and staff from giving nutritional or health advice based on claims for certain products such as probiotics, cranberry juice, co-enzyme Q.10 Glucosamine and perhaps even prunes.
This was stated by M.E.P. Marian Harkin following a vote in the European Parliament Environment Committee where it was decided to accept the publishing of a Register of rejected claims concerning nutrition and health claims made on certain foods. Read more
