Dannon Co. have agreed to reimburse consumers up to $100 for products purchased out of a $35mn fund, according to settlement terms of a class action lawsuit filed in January 2008 regarding advertising for its Activia and DanActive products. The suit had claimed that the marketing and advertising materials for Activia, DanActive and Dan Active Light were deceptive. Under the conditions of the settlement , Dannon have agreed to some significant amendments to their labeling and marketing materials. 1. They will remove the word “immunity” from the product labeling and packaging of its...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Its guidance influences international regulations from the EU to the US and following a recent meeting for the Codex decision-making body in ROME, have adopted the Recommendations on the Scientific Substantiation of Health Claims, the Nutritional Risk Analysis Principles recommended by International Alliance of Dietary/Food Supplement Associations’ (IADSA). The implications of this mean that  the Scientific Substantiation...