Foods, Nutrients and Food Ingredients with Authorised EU Health Claims

The second volume of Foods, nutrients and food ingredients with authorised EU health claims continues from Volume 1, which provided a comprehensive overview of many of the permitted health claims for foods and nutrients approved under European Regulation EC 1924/2006. This new volume discusses more of the health claims authorised to date for use in the EU. The chapters cover details of various permitted claims, such as the approved wording, conditions of use, the target group for the claims, the evidence for the claimed health benefits, and where appropriate details of other relevant legislation, consumer-related issues and future trends.

The book opens with an overview of regulatory developments relating to health claims. Part One reviews authorised disease risk reduction claims and proprietary claims. The second part investigates ingredients with permitted 'general function' claims, with chapters examining ingredients such as red yeast rice, glucomannan and guar gum. The final section of the book explores foods and nutrients with permitted health claims, including chapters on authorised EU health claims for prunes, foods with low or reduced sodium or saturated fatty acids, and claims for essential and long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Autorentext
Michèle Sadler has been working as an independent nutrition consultant, with experience as a nutritionist at BNF and IGD. Her company, Rank Nutrition Ltd, focusses on the application of nutrition science within the food industry, including nutritional strategy, new product development and product positioning particularly in the area of health claims, advice on product composition, compiling dossiers for health claim applications, and advising on protocols for clinical trials to support health claim applications.

Inhalt

1. Regulatory developments with European health claims

   Part One: Authorised disease risk reduction claims and proprietary claims
   2. Authorised EU health claims for phytosterols

2. Authorised EU health claim for slowly digestible starch

3. Authorised EU health claim for cocoa flavanols

   Part Two: Ingredients with permitted 'general function' claims
   5. Authorised EU health claim for oat and barley fibre

4. Authorised EU health claims for wheat fibre
5. Authorised EU Health Claims for Rye fibre
6. Authorised EU health claim for Red Yeast Rice
7. Authorised EU Health Claims for Pectins
8. Authorised EU health claims for Glucomannan, Guar gum and Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose

9. Authorised EU health claim for fructose

   Part Three: Foods and nutrients with permitted health claims
   12. Authorised EU health claims for essential fatty acids (ALA, Linoleic acid)

10. Authorised EU Health Claims for DHA and EPA
11. Authorised EU Health Claim for foods with a low or reduced content of saturated fatty acids
12. Authorised EU health claim for foods with a low or reduced content of sodium
13. Authorised EU health claim for dried plums of prune cultivars (Prunus domestica L)