A recent report from the Heads of Food Safety Agencies in Europe raises concerns about 13 ingredients in food supplements, including curcumin, Hypericum perforatum, Actaea species and Withania somnifera. This article puts this report into context using comments made by the European Federation of Health Products Manufacturers. What is HoA?…
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The UK’s Advisory Committee on Novel Foods & Processes (ACNFP) of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued its first positive safety assessment for the European Industrial Hemp Association’s (EIHA) application in its CBD Novel Foods approval process. Coming just months after the first two individual applications were given positive risk…
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued a new consultation opinion under Article 4 of the Novel Food Regulation, in which it determined that the non-selective aqueous decoctions of monk fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii) are not novel.[1] This decision follows the judgement by the Court of Justice in London on 19…
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