Food Law Consult Posts

The European Commission has proposed new regulation to ban the use of monacolin K in food supplements for dosages equal to and higher than 3 mg. The red yeast rice (‘RYR’) component is currently being evaluated at the European level under the infamous Article 8 procedure of Regulation 1925/2006 on…

In March, the European Commission will publish a regulation prohibiting the use in food of extracts of the leaf of Aloe, and extracts containing aloe-emodin, emodin and danthron.[1] Even more, the regulation will also put under scrutiny extracts from other plants containing hydroxyanthracene derivatives (‘HADs’), i.e. Rhubarb, Cassia and Buckthorn.…