PMID- 36140916
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220928
IS  - 2304-8158 (Print)
IS  - 2304-8158 (Electronic)
IS  - 2304-8158 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 18
DP  - 2022 Sep 9
TI  - The Impact of Time on Nutrition and Health Claims on the Irish Marketplace.
LID - 10.3390/foods11182789 [doi]
LID - 2789
AB  - Since the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health 
      claims (NHCR) made on food, only 261 health claims have been authorised, 
      suggesting that the regulation creates challenges for the food industry. This 
      study looks at the prevalence of nutrition and health claims labelled on food on 
      the Irish market. Specifically, we compared their prevalence in 2009 with those 
      present on the marketplace in 2022. Food labels of defined food categories were 
      examined in three nationwide supermarkets in Ireland, and data of claims made on 
      these labels were collected. A series of statistical analyses was conducted to 
      compare the results from 2021 with those of 2009. In 2021, around half of the 
      examined products (52.8%) displayed at least one nutrition claim, showing no 
      significant difference with the data collected in 2009 (53.5%). Individual 
      categories, however, did exhibit changes between the two time points. The 
      prevalence of health claims on food has decreased from 21.6% in 2009 to 10.5% in 
      2021. There will always be a time lag between when a regulation is enacted and 
      what its true impact can be measured. This study provides these data for the 
      impact of time on EU Regulation 1924/2006 on the Irish market.
FAU - Offe, Stefanie Marisa
AU  - Offe SM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9011-6389
AD  - School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, D04 
      V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
AD  - School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK.
FAU - Bebin, Loanne
AU  - Bebin L
AD  - School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, D04 
      V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
FAU - Lalor, Fiona
AU  - Lalor F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2693-5205
AD  - School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, D04 
      V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220909
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Foods
JT  - Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101670569
PMC - PMC9498248
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - EU Regulation 1924/2006
OT  - Irish retail market
OT  - health claims
OT  - nutrition claims
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/09/24 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/24 06:01
PMCR- 2022/09/09
CRDT- 2022/09/23 01:14
PHST- 2022/07/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/08/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/08/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/09/23 01:14 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/09/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/09/09 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - foods11182789 [pii]
AID - foods-11-02789 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/foods11182789 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Foods. 2022 Sep 9;11(18):2789. doi: 10.3390/foods11182789.