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new novel foods rule could reduce delay
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changes to the european novel food regulation could bring the waiting time for approval down from around three years to just one, according to european advisory service. the european commission's revision of the rule is aimed at simplifying the process and fostering industry innovation in the eu, a food is judged to be novel if it was not eaten in a significant quantity in europe before may 1997. according to the eu novel foods regulation (ec) 258/97, new food ingredients must be shown to meet three criteria before they can be authorised for sale: they must not be unsafe, their labelling must not be misleading and their nutritional quality must not be inferior to other similar foods that they could replace. novel food qualification covers food groups such as plant algae, fungi microorganisms and animal derived foods, but also foods that have altered compositional structure. eas regulatory adviser pieter lagae said that the revision could significantly reduce the waiting time for approval. it is feared that the novel food regulation as it stands stifles innovation as companies wishing to use a new ingredient in a supplement or fortified food have a long wait on their hands for approval. he said: "it is well known that a three year novel food procedure is very common. first you have the member state assessment followed by the commission sending it to the other member states, then they have 60 days to comment. after which the commission will consult with the european food safety authority (efsa) which will then issue an opinion. it can be a year after then before a decision is reached." the draft of the revision, which is being prepared by the commission, would reduce the amount of assessment an application has to go through. instead, efsa will immediately assess the application and not the member state. "it, however, remains to be seen if this shall be the case. it is mainly due to the fact that efsa has 180 days for its risk assessment, there is no member state assessment in advance ," he said. while this would reduce the timing of assessment, it might not make the novel food rules any clearer. lagae added: " on the other hand the revision may not necessarily or immediately result in more clarity for company that is asking whether or not they have a novel food." the current legislation means that authorisation is linked to an individual applicant, which means only the applicant can benefit for the approval and other firms should put through their own applications before they can market similar products. under the draft proposals, companies will not have their application protected from others using it unless they apply for exclusivity. lagae believes this wouldn't necessarily hamper innovation, as the draft currently includes a data-protection clause. "this can be granted only in special cases for newly developed scientific evidence and appropriate data with a 5-year exclusivity period," he said. there has so far been no indication when the revision may be finalised.
Source :Food Ingredients Food Science - Additives, Flavours, Starch
Date :
14
January
2008
Category :
restaurants and Food industrie
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the status of the noni plant as a novel food ingredient has been boosted with the manufacturer, tahitian noni, last week receiving its third european union novel food approval for the puree and concentrate forms of the fruit. the company, which makes and markets products based on the tropically-sourced morinda citrifolia or noni plant including beverages, beauty, and weight loss lines, has already received approval for its noni juice and its noni leaves under the bloc’s novel foods regulation.
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the european food safety authority recently turned in its first health claim verdicts, rejecting eight of nine. european food regulations expert lorène courrège explains why efsa’s tough health claim approach may stifle product innovation. by setting an unworkably high standard for claims substantiation, efsa is threatening r&d not to mention health claims that have long been officially approved in many jurisdictions.
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the eu's food industry association is calling for a raft of changes to proposed laws, calling some of them unworkable and misleading, including those that would regulate additives and enzymes, flavourings, additives, chemicals and health claims. the eu has been in the process of placing the food industry under increasing regulatory control, mainly due to public concerns about safety, quality and the amount of information it receives about the products they eat.
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imperfect as they may be, the european union’s regulatory efforts in the food area have attracted the attention of regulators around the world, some of whom view what is being done in the bloc as a legislative template. in food and food supplements, like most areas of the eu legislative process, there has been a huge amount of ‘to-ing and fro-ing’ as regulators have attempted to account for the divergent interests of 27 member states plus trade, consumer and government interest groups.
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marks & spencer's commitment to remove all hydrogenated fats from its entire food range by mid 2006 suggests that awareness of trans fats has now fully hit europe. the firm is the first major retailer in the uk to place a blanket ban on hydrogenated fats, and could set in place a trend that snowballs, with consumer choice increasingly informed by health and nutritional knowledge.
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the european food safety authority has published its first series of opinions on the list of ‘general function’ health claims compiled by member states and the european commission, finding that two-thirds were currently unsubstantiated. experts on efsa’s panel on dietetic products, nutrition and allergies (nda) evaluated the scientific evidence for more than 500 claims, with the opinions to help inform future decisions of the european commission and member states concerning the authorisation of health claims.
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the advent of new european legislation on genetically modified organisms - applicable as of last week - will hit all players in the food industry. in a bid to render the new rules clearer we have decided to take the step to publish an outline of the legislation as presented by the european commission this week. what is the eu regulatory framework for gmo authorisation? genetically modified organisms (gmos) and genetically modified micro-organisms (gmms) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the genetic material (dna) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating or natural recombination.
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