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Food Law News - UK - 2023

FSA Consultation, 23 January 2023

ADDITIVES / NOVEL FOODS - Applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: one novel food and one food additive

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FSA: Consultation on the specification for food additive rebaudioside M (RP1194), and, FSA: Consultation concerning application for authorisation of a novel food: vitamin D2 mushroom powder (RP1158) Copies of these two documents are available on this site (click on images) Provided under the Open Government Licence. The original documents were accessed from:

England and Wales specific

This consultation seeks stakeholders’ views, comments and feedback in relation to the regulated product applications considered in this document, which have been submitted for authorisation.

• Date launched: 23 January 2023
• Closing date: 6 February 2023

We are seeking stakeholders’ views in relation to regulated product applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: one novel food and one food additive.

This consultation will be of most interest to:

• Food industry trade associations.
• Food business operators in the UK wishing to use the novel food or food additive.
• Enforcement Authorities, including Local Authorities, Port Health Authorities and District Councils.  
• Consumers and wider stakeholders

Consultation subject and purpose

We recently consulted on four miscellaneous regulated product applications: two novel foods, one flavouring and one food additive. However, we have identified that there had been an error and an omission in the information published for one of the novel foods, and an omission in the food additive information within the original consultation.  We are therefore ensuring that stakeholders are made aware of these  and are given the further chance to comment. The consultation concerns the following regulated products:

• RP1158    Vitamin D2 mushroom powder - novel food
• RP1194    Rebaudioside M – food additive

We ask stakeholders to consider any relevant provisions of retained EU law and other legitimate factors (other evidence further supporting clear, rational and justifiable risk analysis, such as technical feasibility and environmental factors). This consultation provides the opportunity for stakeholders’ views to be taken, to inform Ministers.

A parallel consultation for the omission within the food additive (Opens in a new window) information is being published by FSS. Please note that the error and omission for the novel food was not present within FSS’s original consultation.

For the original consultation, see:

• 17 October 2022 NOVEL FOODS / ADDITIVES - Consultation on applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: two novel foods, one flavouring and one food additive (England and Wales specific)