Nutrition & Health Claims
If you are making a nutrition or health claim about your product you must comply with Regulation 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.
A list of approved health claims and conditions for their use, rejected health claims, and permitted nutrition claims have been published by the European Commission and are listed in the Community Register (see Important Information for Food Business Operators below).
The FSAI have produced a booklet 'Information on Nutrition and Health Claims' to provide an overview of nutrition labelling requirements, the framework of the legislation and the labelling requirements for products bearing authorised nutrition and health claims.
Important Information for Food Business Operators on Health Claims which now have Legal Status
The FSAI have devised three tables to help simplify the labelling rules and conditions applying to the use of permitted health claims. These claims now have a legal status and have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The permitted claims appear on the Community Register but it can be difficult for food business operators (FBOs) to identify all the labelling requirements that apply to their use.
In addition, the Register does not clearly specify, in the case of rejected health claims, the date by which products bearing these claims must be removed from the market.
FBOs can access the FSAI tables by choosing one of the categories below:
DISCLAIMER
The information in these spreadsheets is intended to act as a guideline to legislation governing the use of nutrition and health claims on food (Regulation 1924/2006 (as amended)). According to this legislation, food business operators are permitted to use authorised nutrition and health claims on food products that meet particular conditions. However, food business operators must also comply with the specific labelling requirements for foods bearing claims. The information in these spreadsheets outlines each authorised health claim and summarises the related labelling requirements involved.
This information does not:
1. provide guidance on all aspects of food labelling information
2. purport to be comprehensive
3. provide a legal interpretation
4. constitute legal or other professional advice.
Changes to legislation can be expected in the future that will necessitate an update of this guidance information.
Last reviewed: 3/6/2010