Health claims on food labels

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• Overview
• Steps for determining the type of health claim
• Foods or natural health products (NHP)
  • Natural product number
• Drugs vs. foods
• Drug representations and pre-market approval
  • Schedule A disease claims
  • Drug claims not listed in Schedule A
• Drugs claims not permitted on food
  • Medicated claims
  • Laxative claims
  • Tonic foods
• Acceptable disease risk reduction claims and therapeutic claims
  • General conditions
  • Disease risk reduction claims table
  • Conditions of use for disease risk reduction claims and therapeutic claims
  • Naming the food
  • Advertisements for disease risk reduction claims and therapeutic claims
• Function claims
  • Conditions of use for function claims
  • Acceptable function claims table
• Nutrient function claims
  • Conditions of use for nutrient function claims
  • Specific requirements
  • Acceptable nutrient function claims table
  • Advertisements for nutrient function claims
  • Acceptability of new nutrient function claims
• Probiotic claims
  • Type of probiotic claims
  • Conditions of use for probiotic claims
  • Acceptable non-strain specific claims
  • Advertisements for probiotic claims
• Use of the term "prebiotic(s)"
• General health claims
  • Conditions of use for general health claims
  • Use of the terms "nutritious" and "healthy"
  • Weight loss claims vs. weight maintenance claims
• Implied health claims
• Children under two years of age
  • Disease risk reduction claims and therapeutic claims
  • Nutrient function claims for children under two years of age
• Testimonials and guarantees regarding vitamin and mineral nutrients
• Additional information
  • Schedule 1 (subsection 1(1)) - included natural health product substances
  • Schedule 2 (subsection 1(1)) - excluded natural health product substances
  • Schedule A diseases from the Food and Drugs Act [Section 3]
  • Reference list for probiotic claims
  • Information letters/policy updates
• Decisions
  • "Enzyme rich"
  • Oxygen radical absorbing capacity (ORAC) statements and claims
• Definitions
  • Disease risk reduction claims
  • Drug
  • Drug claims
  • Food
  • Function claims
  • General health claims
  • Health claim
  • Laxation
  • Natural health product (NHP)
  • Nutrient function claims
  • Prebiotic(s)
  • Probiotics
  • Therapeutic claims