Food supplements regulation on health claims labelling in non-EU countries

Dzeparoski, Marjan (2024) Food supplements regulation on health claims labelling in non-EU countries. In: Congress on Food Quality and Safety, Health and Nutrition - NUTRICON 2024, 05-07 June 2024, Ohrid. (Submitted)

	Text NUTRICON-2024-ORAL-Program.pdf Download (48kB)
	Text FOOD SUPPLEMENTS REGULATION ON HEALTH CLAIMS LABELLING IN NON-EU COUNTRIES УГД.pdf Download (140kB)

Abstract

This research is important to show that marketing as part of advertising is in correlation with the regulation of health claims labelling of food supplements, which is product specific. Hence, the aim of this research was to compare the regulation for health claims labelling in European Union and non-EU countries.

For the purposes of this research we made comparative analysis of legal regulations for health claims labelling in European Union and non-EU countries: Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo. This kind of analysis is made for the first time. The results of this research showed that all countries of interest follow the European regulation for food supplements, but there are differences within single countries, as well as between countries. We also noticed that least harmonization of regulation exists in food supplements that contain herbal substances.
Given the summary of results, this research shows that there is divided picture concerning alignment with the EU health claims labelling in the non-EU countries. Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro fully follow this EU regulation, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina it is followed only partly. Food supplements marketing is more liberal in Albania and Kosovo.

This research has contributed towards understanding that there is no harmonization, nor mutual recognition between mentioned countries, which is applicable in EU. Harmonization opportunities which are discussed in this research are applicable and realistic, and can contribute in positive, more economic way for better placement of food supplements in different markets

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Subjects:	Medical and Health Sciences > Health sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Medical Science
Depositing User:	Marjan Dzeparoski
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2024 08:22
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2024 12:33
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34270

Actions (login required)

View Item