EFSA, FDA Cast a Nutrition Dark Age

By prohibiting all food health benefit claims without European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) authorization, EFSA has replaced a vibrant marketplace of ideas with a vast wasteland where useful information concerning the potential health benefits of food ingredients is kept from the market. EFSA thus repeats a basic, historic error, one condemned as anathema to freedom and progress over 250 years ago by the leading legal minds and rights advocates of the late Enlightenment Era. By doing so, EFSA now casts Europe into a Nutrition Dark Age. Likewise, in the US, the Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) requirement for pre-approval of food health claims and its evidence-based system of health claims review impose significant anti-competitive barriers to entry and dumb down the marketplace, leaving it largely devoid of useful health information. Here, Emora discusses the restraints that the US and Europe placed before prospective market entrants.