FDA to Lower Standards for Health Claims on Foods

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The government wants to stop all " unproven " claims for any vitamin or food

supplement, but now wants to make it easier for industrial food processors to

make health claims for dead, over processed, fake food made from food parts.

 

Back to the decade of the 80s, when if you wanted " health " you were told to eat

transfats (plastics) , etc., which was exactly what was already causing the

problem.

 

It seems that how the game is rigged is dependent on whether you are a big

business or only a little one.

 

This has been the norm for the last hundrred years, so this sounds like business

as usual to me.

 

As for the quote below about it equating to " The new FDA policy is akin to

allowing drug companies to make claims even if their products haven’t been

proven effective " .

 

In my opinion, that happens most of the time and for the same reasons.

 

F.

 

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200307101.html

 

FDA to Lower Standards for Health Claims on Foods

 

Statement of CSPI Legal Affairs Director Bruce Silverglade

 

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to lower the standards for making

health claims on foods. Manufacturers will be able to make claims about the

health benefits of their products based on preliminary scientific evidence that

may not stand the test of time. This action represents the biggest rollback in

food-labeling standards in 20 years.

Consumers don’t want the federal government to authorize ‘wishy-washy’ health

advice by food companies. The new FDA policy is akin to allowing drug companies

to make claims even if their products haven’t been proven effective.

The FDA’s grading system for health claims is untested and shouldn’t be used

until the agency has completed consumer behavior research that shows that

consumers will not be misled. The FDA is putting the cart before the horse by

allowing companies to make preliminary claims with disclaimers before it knows

whether consumers will be deceived by the messages.

Food companies have been clamoring for weaker regulation for a decade. The Bush

FDA is finally giving them what they want, notwithstanding the requirement that

claims be accompanied by vague qualifying statements. But many food companies

are simply intent on using the First Amendment as a license to practice

quackery.

We are also concerned that the FDA’s new procedures for authorizing health

claims does not meet the requirements of the law because the agency is ignoring

the formal approval process mandated by Congress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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