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Misleading claim as to the effect of a product improving cardiac output

10.06.2020·Food supplements misleading commercial practice unfair competition Food Information Regulation· 0 Comments

"Coenzyme Q10 Capsules", "L-Carnitine Tartrate (Lonza)" and "L-Carnosine Capsules", all three of which are designated as food supplements, shall not be attributed and advertised with the disease-related claim that the product in question or its contents may boost cardiac output from 8 % to 33 %.