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Article: FDA seeking feedback on "functional foods".(WASHINGTON)(Food and Drug Administration)
- Article from:
- The Food Institute Report
- Article date:
- October 30, 2006
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Recently published in the Federal Register, FDA announced a public hearing, and solicited submission of comments, regarding the regulation of certain conventional foods that the industry markets as "functional foods." The hearing's purpose is for FDA to share its current regulatory framework (and rationale) governing the safety and labeling of these foods, and to solicit information and comments on how the agency might better regulate "functional foods" under FDA's existing legal authority, according to our counsel OLSSON, FRANK & WEEDA, PC.
While there is no formal definition of "functional foods," the INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS (IFT) in a March 24, 2005 ...