What constitutes a health benefit?
It was a big question for early in the morning, and Prof Ger Rijkers, Head of Science Department at University College Roosevelt in The Netherlands cast light on the current situation by analyzing the regulators’ decisions in order to understand the grounds on which some health benefits have been approved and not others. His previous analysis of the dossiers of the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) were also updated and extended to the rest of the world.