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.

Permitted nutrition claims are listed in the Annex to the legislation.
A list of approved health claims and conditions for their use will be published by the European Commission by 31 January 2010 at the latest.
Health claims not on this list will not be permitted.

It is the food business operator’s responsibility to comply with this Regulation. Claims that are not compliant will not be permitted.

Check our legislation section for more related information.

See our frequently asked questions section on nutrition and health claims.

Last reviewed: 6/3/2009

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