Marketing Food Supplements, Fortified and Functional Foods in Europe
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dietary supplements |
ISBN | : 9789080699533 |
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"This report guides the nutritional product industry through the European and national regulations in 27 countries. It is the authoritative update following the accession of the ten new EU Member States, and additionally describes the legislative situation for Norway and Switzerland. It gives detailed charts of the different national regulations for food supplements, fortified and functional foods for all twenty five countries and two additional countries - Norway and Switzerland. It overviews the many new rules and changes in national food supplement and functional food regulations following the implementation of the EU Directive on food supplements. It explains the present national rules for health claims and gives a professional insight onto the ongoing discussions on the development of pan-EU rules on fortified foods and health claims. It describes the new product notification requirements, the type of permitted ingredients in countries, the national mutual recognition policies, maximum addition limits for vitamins and minerals. It also provides an overview of the new rules governing GMO and allergen labelling, traditional herbal medicines and EU requirements on PARNUTS (foods for particular nutritional uses), food additives/flavourings and novel foods. Furthermore, it reviews the business impact of specific upcoming legislation: health claims, addition of vitamins and minerals and other substances to food, emerging guidelines from the Codex Alimentarius."--Publisher's description.