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Title:
Marketing Food Supplements, Fortified and Functional Foods in Europe -
Legislation & Practice 2008.
Type: Essential guide on EU, Norway, Swiss, Russia and Turkey legislation & rules
Details:
Publisher: European Advisory Services (Brussels,
Belgium)
Description:
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.
Benefits:
- All-in-one source for diverse health industrial sectors.
- Excellent source book for self-help.
- Written by the European experts located at the heart of the EU and strongly involved in the development and modification of EU legislation.
- High value added publication that helps you save time and costs that you would otherwise have to invest in expensive external legislative advisors.
- High value added publication with respect to time, costs and quality of information.
For whom?
Company regulatory affairs officers, marketing managers, product and business
developers.
Contents:
Food Supplements, Fortified and Functional Foods - Overview of pan-EU rules on food supplements, fortified and functional foods - Impact of the new EU food supplement Directive on product formulations and labeling - Impact and timing of the proposed EU Fortified Food Regulation - Impact of the new EU Directive on traditional herbal medicines (THMPD)
- Status of EU legislation on PARNUTS (foods for particular nutritional uses) - Summary of specific EU food law rules affecting nutritional products (EU food additives rules - EU flavouring rules - GMO labeling and traceability rules - Allergen labeling rules - Rules applied to novel food ingredients - Rules on irradiated food ingredients) -
National legislation guide on food supplements, fortified and functional foods - National regulatory models: Austria - Belgium - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Slovakia - Slovenia -
Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - UK; Work towards international standards - The Codex Alimentarius decision-making procedure - Codex action on food supplements, fortified foods and food additives - Health Claims - Overview of Pan-EU Rules on health claims - Current EU rules on health claims - Proposal for a Regulation on nutrition and health claims -
Guide to National Health Claims Policies - National approaches to health claims - Existing national Guidelines/Codes of conduct: Belgium - Finland - Netherlands - Spain -Sweden - Switzerland - UK; Work towards European and international standards for health claims - Council of Europe - Codex Alimentarius - Current list of EU approved vitamin & mineral substances,
which may be used in food supplements - List of EU approved substances, which may be added to PARNUTS foods - EU nutrition labelling RDAs - Nutrition labelling RDAs of non-EU countries
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Table of Contents
Price:
EUR 590.00 plus sales tax. Handling and transport costs are included.
Order:
Available through the Food Application Bookstore
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