The EU’s chief science agency has turned down a hangover health claim for a prickly pear extract before even evaluating the science behind it because it said the claim was too vague.
Opuntia ficus-indica extracts could help in the, “rapid recovery of cellular activity post stress” proposed Maltese firm ICP Ltd but the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said the article 13.5 claim was ‘non-specific’ and threw it out without passing comment on the dossier’s contents.
