Madrid, May 23 - Spain on Friday passed new food safety laws including measures to make food manufacturers explain claims that a certain food can benefit people on diets, the Health Ministry said.
"The law states that products which claim to compliment low-calorie diets should say so on the label but only if companies can show sufficient scientific proof to justify the claim," the Ministry said in a statement.
The law says that any claim on labels must be understandable by the average consumer.
The new legislation also includes measures to control the market in powdered baby milk and extensive controls on packaging quality.