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Article: Latest NFPA, CHPA responses to FDA call for comment on qualified health claims.(National Food Processors Association)(Consumer Healthcare Products Association )(United States Food and Drug Administration )
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- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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The US National Food Processors Association has urged the Food and Drug Administration to provide flexibility in making qualified health claims or dietary guidance statements on food labels.
This recommendation was made in comments submitted by the NFPA in late February to the agency concerning its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which appeared in the Federal Register of November 25, 2003, seeking public comment on how qualified health claims in the labeling of conventional human foods and dietary supplements should be regulated (NI vol 8, no 12). Earlier this year, the FDA announced that the comment period would be extended from late January to February 25. ...