Updates on nutrition and health claims

Updates on nutrition and health claims

Alejandro Perales-Albert, Raquel Bernácer-Martínez, Julian García-Gómez, Carlos Álvarez-Dardet, Rocío Ortiz-Moncada

There is concern about the influence of social determinants related to advertising, communication and information on the selection of food for healthy eating and safe. From this point of view, Spain created the European Regulation 1924/2006 (ER1924/2006), its aim is to ensure and promote access to safe food that benefit health and prevent information received by consumers is inaccurate, ambiguous or misleading. The aims of regulation are to prevent nutritional and attributed health claims to food without reason or if there is sufficient scientific evidence. In this sense, a group of professionals from the University of Alicante in December 2012 performed the First Day of Food and Nutrition, organized by the Center Alinua of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Alicante, related to updates on nutrition and health claims and its implications public health.By the interest and importance of this topic, this is a summary of the position papers from agents involved: consumers, government, food business, the gremial’s dietitian, the Academy and public health.

2013

Etiquetado de los Alimentos, Información al Consumidor, declaraciones de salud, declaraciones nutricionales, legislación alimentaria, medicina basada en la evidencia, profesionales de la salud, salud pública

10.14306/renhyd.17.4.45

Revista Española de Nutrición Humana y Dietética

Academia Española de Nutrición y Dietética

Nutrition. Foods and food supply, Nutritional diseases. Deficiency diseases