The seven model health claims

The FDA has sanctioned seven health claims that link a nutrient to a positive impact on a disease: * calcium and osteoporosis; * dietary lipids and cancer; * sodium and hypertension; * dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and risk of coronary heart disease; * fiber-containing grain products, fruits, and vegetables and cancer; * fruits, vegetables and grain products that contain fiber, particularly soluble fiber, and risk of coronary heart disease; * and fruits and vegetables and cancer.

Stephen Barlas

Mar 31, 1996

In January, the agency proposed an eighth claim for oat bran and reduced risk of heart disease (see Packaging World, February, '96, p. 2). c

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