Consumers Across EU Struggling To Interpret Nutrition And Health Claims
Executive Summary
Consumers need more support to help them accurately interpret nutrition and health claims made on foods, including food supplements, a study across five EU markets suggests. Nutrition claims and health claims are regularly confused by consumers, and their technical wording often means they are misunderstood or not understood at all.
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