ECJ SAYS FOOD PRODUCTS REQUIRE NOVEL FOOD SCREENING EVEN IF INGREDIENTS ARE PROVEN SAFE
February 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that unusual new food products must be closely screened under the European Union's (EU) novel food regulation, even if their ingredients have been proved safe. In a case assessing a health food product produced by Germany's M-K Europa, the court said: "The fact that all the individual ingredients...have a safe history" is not "sufficient" for the novel food regulation to be waived. Europa's Man-Koso includes more than 50 fermented plant ingredients, such as brown and red algae, ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.