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[Health foods: definitions, status, public health. Round table no. 4. XV]
A Basdevant1, C A Cudennec, J P Lehner
1Service de Médecine et Nutrition, Hotel-Dieu de Paris, France.
Therapie
|December 1, 2000
Abstract:
'Alicaments' ('ali' for 'aliment' = 'food' in French, and 'cament' for medicament = drug), is an inappropriate term to designate a developing domain: functional foods, in other words health claims in nutrition. It is not easy to delineate the frontier between foods and drugs; this results in some regulatory problems. The key question is the evaluation of health claims. In this report, we synthesize the discussions of a workshop bringing together specialists from the food industry and nutritionists, scientists and representatives of public health departments.