EU Health Claim Lint — Food & Supplement Pages

Scans the product page you have open — HTML, Markdown or MDX — for nutrition and health claims that EU food law does not allow, and names the article that stops each one.

An AI writing assistant is a bad place to ask about this. It has read a great deal of food marketing and very little of the Union Register, so it will happily write boosts immunity, detox, clinically proven and blend of EU and non-EU honeys into a product page. Every one of those is a finding here.

What it checks

19 rules, drawn from four instruments:

• Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims — Art. 6(1) evidence, Art. 9 comparative claims, Art. 10(1) Union Register only, Art. 10(2) accompanying information, Art. 10(3) general wellbeing references, Art. 12(b) rate or amount of weight loss, Art. 12(c) recommendations by individual health professionals, Art. 28(5)–(6) botanicals on hold, and the Annex conditions for nutrition claims.
• Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 (FIC) — Art. 7(3): food information must not attribute to a food the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease.
• Directive 2002/46/EC on food supplements — Art. 6(3): the three statements that must appear on every supplement.
• Directive (EU) 2024/1438 — the revised honey, fruit juice and jam labelling rules, applicable since 14 June 2026. Stock labelled before that date may be sold until it runs out. A web page is not stock.

The Annex thresholds are printed in the message, so you can fix the copy without opening the Official Journal: low fat 3 g/100 g · fat-free 0.5 g/100 g · low sugars 5 g/100 g · sugars-free 0.5 g/100 g · source of protein 12 % of energy · high protein 20 % of energy · source of fibre 3 g/100 g · high fibre 6 g/100 g · low sodium 0.12 g/100 g · source of a vitamin 15 % NRV · high in a vitamin 30 % NRV · light and reduced need a 30 % difference plus a statement of what was reduced.

How it behaves

Open a product page and run EU Health Claim Lint: Check this file. Findings appear in the Problems panel on the line that carries the claim, each with the article and the wording that would be lawful instead.

Rules tied to a date carry a from value. Before that date the rule reports as advance notice; on and after it, at full severity. The date comes from the options passed to the engine, so the same file can be checked against a past or a future day.

The measure

Running the two fixtures shipped with this extension: clean.html returns 0 findings and dirty.html returns 24 findings — 13 of them outright prohibitions — across 16 of the 19 rules. Those are the numbers quoted anywhere else about this tool.

Free and paid

Checking the file you have open is the whole job and it is free: every rule, every finding, every article, no key, no limit.

The paid layer moves on a different axis — scope and ownership. EU Health Claim Lint: Export compliance dossier walks every product page in the workspace and writes one dated Markdown and CSV dossier, per SKU, with the article citations, that you keep and hand to a lawyer, a client or an authority. $29 once.

Hub

https://getreadystack.com/tools/eu-health-claim-lint

Limits worth knowing

This is a linter, not legal advice. It reads the text on the page; it cannot see your specification sheet, so a nutrition claim it flags for a missing figure may be perfectly true — it is telling you the figure is not on the page where a reader or an inspector would look for it. National rules differ, particularly for botanicals and for the word probiotic, and the tool says so rather than deciding for you.