Google Ads as unacceptable advertising

The Netherlands In the Netherlands, the court has ruled on a case in which a medical search term led to a Google Ad for a food supplement. The court decided that this is unacceptable publicity for medicines. The Google Ad for the food supplement appeared after typing...

FASFC-Brexitportal

Belgium As from March 30, 2019, the United Kingdom (UK) will no longer be a member of the European Union (EU). Although to date, no agreement between the EU and the UK has been approved, the companies involved in Brexit should anticipate the consequences as much as...

Food (supplements) and health claims

EU Recently, based on a German case, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided to restrict the EU Health Claims Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods). In this case, food supplements were promoted towards health...