- Volume 13 (2018), Issue 1
- Vol. 13 (2018), No. 1
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- Pages 29 - 33
- pp. 29 - 33
Health Claims and Botanicals: How to Proceed with European Harmonisation?
The European Commission is currently evaluating what public authorities, the business community and other stakeholders want to do with the claims for botanicals – on hold since 2010 – in order to make a proposal on how applications for health claims for botanicals should be assessed and, moreover, whether the use of botanicals in foods must be regulated separately. It is a great challenge to find a legally robust and politically feasible solution for the current situation.