Download Systematic review of a food-health relationship

This document is intended to provide food businesses and researchers with guidance on how to self-substantiate a food-health relationship in order to make a new general level health claim. It includes detailed information and practical examples for establishing a causal relationship between a food, or a property of a food, and a health effect. The contents cover the legal requirements for self-substantiation of health claims which are set out in the Australian and New Zealand Food Standards Code: Standard 1.2.7 (Nutrition, health and related claims) and Schedule 6 (Required elements of a systematic review).