Additional Press Releases

• Health Canada Announces Initiative for Food, Drug and Cosmetic Companies to Protect Existing Market Status
  October 14, 2011 - Ontario, Canada Intertek Cantox, a leading provider of scientific and regulatory consulting services, today announced its delivery of new services to help the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic industries take full advantage of Health Canada’s invitation to nominate existing ingredients to the Revised In-Commerce List (ICL). This Revised ICL is expected to form the basis of exemptions from the need to secure pre-market approval under the upcoming Environmental Assessment Regulations. These Environmental Assessment Regulations will trigger the need for independent approval of “new” ingredients under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in addition to the current regulatory approval obligations under the Food and Drugs Act. The Revised ICL will be the basis upon which substances are deemed not “new”.
  - Intertek Cantox 

• Intertek Cantox Addresses U.S. Structure/Function Claims on Foods and Dietary Supplements Together with U.S. FDA and FTC Experts
  September 19, 2011 - Intertek Cantox, a leading international scientific and regulatory consulting firm and part of the global Intertek brand recently announced that it will host a one-day symposium on Structure/Function (S/F) claims to clarify the substantiation and enforcement of these claims on food and dietary supplements. This event will be held on November 2, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City.
  - Intertek    

 Additional Articles

• Claims are All Sticking Together for Gum
  2011 - My wife hates chewing gum. She tells me this often, she just does not do it and cannot stand kids wandering in and out, chomping away. But love it or hate it, you cannot deny that of all the foods, gum is emerging as one of the foremost innovators and healthiest formats for growth. In fact it’s pretty much the only confectionery category that can genuinely say “it’s good for you.” Every food company will be looking at their portfolios and saying to themselves, “we’d like a stick of that.”...
  -Nutrition Insight
  
  

• Omega-3 oils: Health Claims Global Perspectives
  May/June 2011 - Where ever you go in the food ingrdient world these days you hear of the misery that is apparently facing the industry in regard of health claims.  Everyone is against us would be one interpretation of this from an outsider...
  -Nutracos

• Regulatory Insight: Inside Rosemary's Approval
  April/May 2011 - The story of rosemary shows how the industry has worked together to take this humble herb to the top of the list for food manufacuturers...
  -The World of Food Ingredients
  

• Exploring the Asian Market
  April 25, 2011 - There is growing interest by the food and supplement industries to expand into the Asian marketplace because of the large market size, the Westernization of lifestyles, and the long-standing history of using foods and natural products for health promotion...
  -Natural Products Insider

• Regulation of Nanomaterials Today and Tomorrow
  April 1, 2011 - “If nanotechnology is a racehorse, then industry is a jockey whipping it along to market at a breakneck pace. The regulatory community is a poor old trainer limping along in the backstretch, pleading to wrap the horse's legs for safety" (Houston Chronicle, 2007)...
  -Inside Cosmeceuticals

• Interview: Nanotechnology Slowly but Surely Making Its Way to Feed Additive Sector
  June 21, 2010 - The use of nanotechnology in consumer products continues to grow rapidly. According to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies' latest estimates, over 1,000 products made from this new technology are available to consumers around the world...
  -Feedinfo News Service
  

• 2009-2010 E.W. Crampton Award
  Summer 2010 - Ian Munro, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Senior Scientific Consultant of Cantox Health Sciences International and past TASED executive committee member, is the recipient of the 2009-2010 E.W. Crampton Award...
  - Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division Newsletter

• Nanotechnology in Food: a Brief Update
  Summer 2010 - Nanotechnology is an emerging science, which focuses on manipulating materials at the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) scale. The recent rise in the interest...
  - Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division Newsletter
  

• Devil Not So Bad in EFSA Health Claim Details
  02-Oct-2009 - At first glance yesterday’s publication of the first batch of 94 article 13.1 health claim opinions, is a worst-case scenario for industry, with claims for the likes of omega-3s, beta-glucan, folate, probiotics and taurine all drawing negative opinions from EFSA scientists.
  - NutraIngredients
  

• Mutual Recognition a Must for ‘Traditional’ Novel Foods
  23-September-2009 - The amended novel foods approval must reinforce the principle of mutual recognition between member states if the fast-track process for traditional foods eaten outside the EU is to work, says an expert.
  -FOODnavigator 
  

• Food Companies Turn to Experts for Help Amid Health-Claims Crisis
  01-Sep-2009 - Mountains of effort have been invested by the functional-foods and ingredients industries into pushing for changes to the European Nutrition & Health Claims Regulation.Time and again, however, the European Food Safety Authority — which is responsible for the assessment of claims — has refused to yield to calls to relax the stringent criteria it is applying to dossiers.
  -Functional Ingredients Mag
  

• Second Chance Saloon May Help Health Claims Rejects
  30-Jun-2009 - If - as expected - a large number of 'article 13.1' health claims are not approved for use in Europe, it is not the end of the regulatory road for firms making these claims, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has revealed.
  -Food Manufacture

• EFSA OK's Chromium Picolinate Safety Dossier
  30-Jun-2009 - PURCHASE, N.Y.—Nutrition 21 announced it received notice that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a positive safety assessment regarding the use of chromium picolinate in dietary supplements.
  -Natural Products Insider 

• EU Health Claims Conversation Must Continue 
  25-Jun-2009 - Nigel Baldwin is one of Europe’s canniest consultants when it comes to the tricky business of European Union nutrition and health claims. He was at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) stakeholder’s meeting in Brussels on June 15 and came away with mixed feelings...
  -NUTRA ingredients-USA

• Industry Set for Mass Withdrawals on Claims Applications 
  19-Jun-2009 - There could be mass withdrawals in future of applications for claims while EFSA is in the middle of assessing dossiers, industry consultants said this week. This followed the move by the NDA panel to enter into more dialogue with applicants, set out at the meeting in Brussels on Monday...
  - EU Food Law Weekly 

• EFSA's Health Claims Answers Provide Warm-Up for Big Meeting 
  10- June- 2009 - There are just a few days to go before EFSA stages a landmark meeting to discuss the claims approval process it is applying under the European Nutrition & Health Claims Regulation. The event, to be held in Brussels on 15 June, will be the first real opportunity food and beverage companies and experts have had to quiz EFSA's assessors about the tough levels of proof they are seeking when evaluating claims dossiers...
  - Functional Ingredients

• Nanoscience to Boost Food Safety, Quality and Shelf Life
   08-Jun-2009 - Nanotechnology promises big benefits for food safety, quality, and shelf life provided the challenges it brings can be overcome, delegates were told at the Institute of Food Technology's annual conference at Anaheim, California...
  - FOOD production daily

• The Quiet Potential of Supplements and Fortified Foods
  11-May-2009 - What do companies like Vitamin Shoppe, Johnson & Johnson, DSM, Whole Foods, NBTY and even Pfizer have in common? The answer is that they have all found a way to do what many other well-intentioned firms in the nutrition industry have not been able to: They have joined the battle against malnutrition...
  - NUTRA ingredients- USA
  

• Global Regulatory Policies on Food Nanotechnology
  May-2009 - Regulatory bodies around the world have established rules and guiding principles toward nanoscale materials, which have ramifications for use in food...
  - Food Technology, Betty Bugusu, Carla Mejia, Bernadene Magnuson, & Shahrzad Tafazoli   

• Claims Regime Threatens Functional Sector
  01-Mar-2009 - Companies must improve EFSA dossiers, expert warns.  The European Commission risks putting legions of small- and medium-sized companies out of business if it doesn't relax its hard-line stance on health claims, a leading expert has warned. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is in the process of evaluating the scientific evidence for thousands of claims under the Nutrition & Health Claims Regulation, which will make it illegal to make a claim for a product unless it has been authorised.
  - Functional Ingredients Mag

• Article 13 Health Claim Deadlines in Jeopardy
  11-Feb-2009 - Nigel Baldwin, the senior scientific and regulatory consultant at UK-based consultancy, Cantox Health Sciences International...
  - NUTRAingredients

• EFSA Rosemary as Antioxidant Up for Regulatory Inclusion
  07-Oct-2008 - Rosemary extracts are expected to be included in that amendment, according to Nigel Baldwin because the FIAP regulation has been in the process. Baldwin is not expecting a lot of debate over...
  - FOODnavigator

• Hope Among EFSA’s Harsh Health Claim Rulings
  03-Oct-2008 - Nigel Baldwin worked with suppliers on many dossiers in his role as senior scientific and regulatory despatched a negative opinion to one of those dossiers, Baldwin remains optimistic about the process...
  - NUTRAingredients 

Publications

• A Brief Review of the Occurrence, Use, and Safety of Food-Related Nanomaterials
  Bernadene A. Magnuson, Tomas S. Jonaitis, and Jeffrey W. Card
  Journal of Food Science, 76: R126–R133. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2011.02170.x
  
  Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have tremendous potential to enhance the food supply through novel applications, including nutrient and bioactive absorption and delivery systems; ingredient functionality; improved colors and flavors; microbial, allergen, and contaminant detection and control; and food packaging properties and performance. To determine the current state of knowledge regarding the safety of these potential uses of nanomaterials, an appraisal of the published literature on the safety of food-related nanomaterials was undertaken. A method of assessment of reliability of toxicology studies was developed to conduct this appraisal. The review of the toxicology literature on oral exposure to food-related nanomaterials found that the number of studies is limited. Exposure to nanomaterials in the human food chain may occur not only through intentional uses in food manufacturing, but also via uses in agricultural production and carry over from use in other industries. Although a number of analytical methods are useful in physicochemical characterization of manufactured nanomaterials, new methods may be needed to more fully detect and characterize nanomaterials incorporated into foods and in other media. There is a need for additional toxicology studies of sufficient quality and duration on different types of nanomaterials to further our understanding of the characteristics of nanomaterials that affect safety of oral exposure resulting from use in various food applications.