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FDA Announces Qualified Health Claim for Certain Cranberry Products and Urinary Tract Infection

USA

Aug 04, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today in a letter of enforcement discretion that it does not intend to object to the use of certain qualified health claims regarding consuming certain cranberry products and a reduced risk of recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) in healthy women.  

The FDA responded to a health claim petition submitted on behalf of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.  The petition requested that the FDA authorize a health claim regarding the relationship between the consumption of cranberry products and the reduced risk of recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) in healthy women.  A health claim characterizes the relationship between a substance and a disease or health-related condition.

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