“Best Practices for Entrepreneurs & Industry: How to Avoid Misleading Claims & Tackle Excessive Pricing for Functional Foods”

Dietary supplements do not cure diseases, but they can help to avoid deficiency symptoms, support healing processes and help to meet the dietary needs, thus lower the burden on health care systems. Especially, elderly people, people with chronic diseases or patients during healing processes are restricted by the governmental requirements against the spread of COVID-19, which may result in reduced extensive care and decreased nutritional status. In this case, functional food like dietary supplements can help to maintain a balanced supply of all nutrients. The webinar is intended to shed light on the current situation, how the consumer can be informed and how food supplements and functional food can make a meaningful contribution to healthy eating in the current situation.