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Ref : EIC 230/4
4 March 2010
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 96/2010
European Union (EU)* : List of Nutritional Claims made on Foods
Further to Commercial Information Circulars No. 39/2007 of 15 January 2007 and No. 617/2009 of 11 December 2009, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation amending the list of nutritional claims permitted to be made on food, and their application conditions. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No. 116/2010 which can be accessed through the following link: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:037:0016:0018:EN:PDF
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For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Peggy LEUNG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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