PRESS RELEASE: USA functional foods debate – is the US following the same railtracks as Europe?

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JOINT RELEASE BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH FREEDOM AND THE ALLIANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release

5^th January 2007

Natural health interests voice concern about
possible new oversight by FDA on health claims

The American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF), and its European affiliate, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), today submitted written comments to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in its current consultation on functional foods. As leaders in the health freedom community, AAHF and the ANH recommend better definitions or adapting existing regulations on functional foods and not creating new regulations that could ultimately reduce consumer choice or information.

AAHF and the ANH argue that if additional oversight is to be considered, it must be proportionate, as there is a very real risk that if excessively onerous provisions are required to