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EU expands novel foods’ definition to account for technological advances
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Friday, 19 January, 2018, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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An expanded definition for novel foods to account for innovations and technological advances in the food sector was one of the improvements and changes brought to the novel food authorisation procedure by the European Union’s (EU) new regulation on novel foods, which became applicable on January 1, 2018.
The others included a centralised EU-wide authorisation system of novel foods and of traditional foods from third-world countries, a list of all authorised novel foods in the EU, and data protection provisions for the applicants.
Vytenis Andriukaitis, European commissioner for health and food safety, welcomed the new regulation, saying, “These changes will make the process of authorising and placing novel food on the European market simpler, quicker and more applicant-friendly, while fully ensuring food safety.”
“We hope that this will add to the variety already present on the EU market of healthy, nutritious traditional and innovative foods,” he added.
Before being authorised all novel foods must be scientifically proven to be safe to public health. The authorisation will then set out the conditions for their use, their designation as food and the labelling requirements.
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