Food Health Claims in Canada Topic of Upcoming Webcast

The Canadian government has announced a January 20, 1010, webcast titled “Health Claims in Canada: An Update on Function Claims and Probiotic Claims for Food.” Presented by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), the Webcast will (i) “provide an update on the development of a modernized framework for health claims for food and the future directions for managing health claims”; (ii) “present new guidance on function claims and probiotic claims, and the requirements for scientific evidence to validate claims” and (iii) provide insights into CFIA’s enforcement approach.