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Regulatory Guidance

What is the legal status of soy and what do various regulators say about soy products?

 

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The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) has recently assessed the potential risks of phytoestrogen exposure in infants fed soy formulas.

 

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The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled that Television New Zealand has breached its code of practice in a program that featured a supposed independent nutritionist promoting the use of soy products.  Read the full decision.

The New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that pharmaceutical company Novogen has breached the New Zealand Code for Therapeutic Advertising with its advertising of the phytoestrogen supplement Trinovin.   Read the full decision.

Ministry of Health Position Statement on soy formulas

 

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In 1996 the Swiss Federal Commission on Food (EEK) discussed the question of oestrogens in food. The fact that substances with an Oestrogenic effect occur naturally and in large quantities in the soya bean and are also in mother 's milk substitutes based on soya bean protein has led to worldwide concern. The EEK decided not to issue a general warning, but to send out an Information Sheet direct to paediatricians.

 

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Read why soy does not have GRAS (Generally Recognised as Safe) status.