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Ref : EIC 230/2/12

11 December 2009

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 615/2009

European Union (EU)* : Regulation on the Addition of Vitamins and Minerals to Foods

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 40/2007 of 15 January 2007, the European Commission (the Commission) has adopted a Regulation amending the list of vitamins and minerals and their forms which can be added to foods, including food supplements. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1170/2009 (the Regulation), which can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:314:0036:0042:EN:PDF

DETAILS

2. Directive 2002/46/EC and Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council established lists of vitamins and minerals and their forms, which may be added to food and used for the manufacture of food supplements. Recently, new vitamins and minerals forms have been evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority and result of the evaluation concluded that some substances should be added to the lists. The revised lists of vitamins and minerals are set out in the Annexes of the Regulation.

ENQUIRIES

3. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Peggy LEUNG)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.