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answer text: Members of the natural health sector have made representations to Health Ministers about the impact of the European Union Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims on businesses and on the information that can be provided to consumers to promote products. A Regulatory Impact Assessment was published in July 2007. The EU Regulation requires the European Commission to submit a report on the application of the Regulation, in particular on the evolution of the market in foods for which nutrition or health claims are made. This will look at the impact of the implementation of the Regulation across the EU, including in the United Kingdom. The Food Standards Agency, as the UK Competent Authority in relation to the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation in 2007, sent 2,907 general function health claim applications to the European Commission in 2008. In total, the European Commission received over 44,000 such applications from all EU member states. These were aggregated into 4,637 health claim applications submitted to the European Food Safety Authority for assessment. The EU Register of claims lists 229 general function health claims as authorised and 1,875 as non-authorised. The European Commission's website lists 2,095 such applications on which decisions are still to be made; 2,078 of these are health claims for plant based “botanical” substances which have been placed ‘on hold' pending further reflection by the Commission. No health claims have been authorised for glucosamine.
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