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European Commission Suggests ‘Traditional Use’ Could Resolve Botanicals Deadlock

 
• By David Ridley

Five years in the making, the European Commission delivers its assessment of the botanical ingredients in food supplements situation, suggesting that 'traditional use' may be a way out of the deadlock. 

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The European Commission has suggested that "traditional use" could be explored as a way to resolve the decade-long deadlock on health claims on plants used in food supplements marketed within the European Union.

Itself five-years in the pipeline, the Commission’s evaluation found that the objectives of the Nutrition and Health claims Regulation (EC)...

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