Gunter Haesaerts, the man who won the initial proanthocyanidins (PACs)-based cranberry-UTI health claim in France in 2004, and owner of supplier Pharmatoka, says the issue is settled – that finally the DMAC method has received the official French validation he has fought for for so long.
But David Tournay, owner of Tournay Biotechnologies and president of Euracran, a group that includes Burgundy Botanical Extracts and Diana Naturals, and which backs the European Pharmacopoeia PACs measuring method, says otherwise.
Tournay says a subsequent note from the French body in question - the Directorate General of Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) - shows the issue is far from resolved in the €25m French market.