Article: Proposed Regulation on the Addition of Vitamins and Minerals to Foods - Latest Developments.

Originally published August 2005

BACKGROUND

In November 2003, the European Commission issued a proposal for a Regulation on the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods (the "proposed Regulation")1. The aim of the proposed Regulation is to regulate the voluntary addition of vitamins and minerals to foods in order to promote the free circulation of such foods in the EU and at the same time to provide a high level of protection for consumers.

Under the proposed Regulation, only those vitamins and minerals listed in Annex I may be added to foods, and then only in the forms set out in Annex II. Maximum and minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals that can be added ...

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