The role of the concept of “history of safe use” in the safety assessment of novel foods and novel food ingredients. Opinion of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 957-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Heinz Engel ◽  
Rudi F. Vogel ◽  
Dietrich Knorr ◽  
Michael Habermeyer ◽  
Barbara Kochte-Clemens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
German Research Foundation ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
German Research ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Novel Food legislation and consumer acceptance - importance for the food industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Nada Knezevic ◽  
Slavka Grbavac ◽  
Marina Palfi ◽  
Marija Badanjak Sabolović ◽  
Suzana Rimac Brnčić
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Compositional Data ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Food History ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
Food Legislation

Novel foods are defined as food and food ingredients that have not been used to any significant extent in a particular country. This paper offers a brief overview of the current novel food legislation in European Union, Great Britain, USA, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and China. Prior to sale, food business operators (manufacturers or importers) are required, under different regulations and procedures, to submit information to Food Safety Authority about the product in question for a safety assessment. The approaches and specific information used to assess the safety of novel foods are outlined in national Guidelines. Generally, applicant should provide a detailed description of the novel food (identity of the novel food, production process, compositional data, proposed uses and use levels and anticipated intake of the novel food, history of use of the novel food and/or of its source, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, nutritional information, toxicological information and allergenicity) for the safety assessment and market approval of a novel food.

scholarly journals Sea Buckthorn Leaves and the Novel Food Evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Sanna Kauppinen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Sea Buckthorn ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
History Of

AbstractNovel food means any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the European Union before 1997. The novel food regulation (EC) 258/97 concerns also foods and food ingredients consisting of or isolated from plants, except the food having a history of safe food use within the European Union before 1997. According to the knowledge thus far, sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides L.) leaves have not been used to a significant degree as food, food supplement, or spice in European Union before 1997. The new regulation on novel foods (EU) No. 2015/2283 (Anonymous, 2015) comes into force in the beginning of 2018. After that also history of safe use in a third country is accepted as information of its traditional use. This means continued use for at least 25 years in the customary diet of a significant number of people. Novel food application has to include the description of the product, production process, characteristics and composition, proposed uses and use levels, anticipated intake, history of its use, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, nutritional and toxicological information and allergenicity. Sea buckthorn leaves have been under active research lately and a lot of information is already available, but safety assessment required for novel food evaluation may still be needed.

Zwischen Literaturgeschichte und Zeitgenossenschaft

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Henrike Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
German Research Foundation ◽  
German Research ◽  
Humboldt University ◽  
History Of

Summary The article serves as an introduction to the thematic cluster of papers devoted to the work of Bulgarian poet and literary theoretician Pencho Slaveykov (1866–1912), which present the outcomes of a workshop dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the poet at the Department of Slavic and Hungarian Studies, Humboldt University (Berlin 2016; supported by the German Research Foundation DFG). As Slaveykov, while a leading representative of Bulgarian modern literature, is not an established figure in comparative literary studies, the paper sketches briefly the biography of the author, or rather the “biographemes” out of which he constructs his self-representation. In summarizing the main findings of the cluster contributions, it outlines the ways in which Slaveykov and his work—as a phenomenon ‘untimely’ to his era—have been embedded into the narratives of Bulgarian literary history of the 20th and early 21st century, which reach from postmodernism and postcolonialism to new engagement, or to entangled histories.

scholarly journals Novel Food: The Impact of Innovation on the Paths of the Traditional Food Chain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Zarbà ◽  
Gaetano Chinnici ◽  
Mario D’Amico
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
Food Cultures ◽  
Consumer Interests ◽  
Trade Dynamics ◽  
The Impact

Novel food refers to any type of food which was not used for human consumption before the 15 May 1997 in a specific place. This date refers to the introduction of European Union Regulation (EC) No 258/1997 which regulated the placing of novel foods or novel food ingredients on the market within the community for the first time. Then, the Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 changed the existing legislation for the categories of food belonging to novel food in order to guarantee a higher level of protection of human health and consumer interests. Algae, which are not commonly consumed by people but are considered among the most widespread foods of the future, are one of the principal food products of natural plant origin in the regulation of novel foods. However, even if algae were not well-known in the past, nowadays they are integrated into the different food cultures of the EU. This circumstance led to an analysis of the contribution of trade flows, of algae for human consumption inside and outside Europe, on the trade balance of the member countries of the European Union. Analysis of the Eurostat database was used to provide an overview of the international trade dynamics affecting the trade development of algae for human consumption in the European Union, with the aim of measuring the competitive dynamics within member countries.

Can Social Behaviour Influence Food Preference of Wild Mice, Mus Domesticus, in Confined Field Populations?

1996 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 493 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Valsecchi ◽  
GR Singleton ◽  
WJ Price
Keyword(s):  
Food Preference ◽  
Food Selection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Staple Food ◽  
Wild Mice ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
Adaptive Value ◽  
Eastern Australia

The role of social transmission in directing food preference was assessed in adult wild mice living in seminatural outdoor enclosures located in south-eastern Australia. We first examined whether mice recently fed one novel food and then released back into the enclosure (demonstrator mice) influenced the food preference of mice presented with a choice between that novel food and one other novel food. Then we examined the food preference of mice presented with a novel food and their staple food, after demonstrator mice were fed with the novel food and returned to the enclosure. The main results were as follows: (i) mice given a choice between two novel foods, in the presence of demonstrator mice, consumed significantly more of the novel food to which demonstrator mice had been exposed; and (ii) mice given a choice of one novel food and their staple food, in the presence of demonstrator mice that had been exposed to the novel food, ate similar amounts of the two foods. The adaptive value of different strategies of food selection is discussed.

Microbial food cultures - opinion of the Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudi F. Vogel ◽  
Walter P. Hammes ◽  
Michael Habermeyer ◽  
Karl-Heinz Engel ◽  
Dietrich Knorr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
German Research Foundation ◽  
German Research ◽  
Food Cultures

History of safe use as applied to the safety assessment of novel foods and foods derived from genetically modified organisms

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 2513-2525 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Constable ◽  
D. Jonas ◽  
A. Cockburn ◽  
A. Davi ◽  
G. Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Fundamental regulations concerning novel food products and food for special medical purposes with plant ingredients

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Justyna Baraniak ◽  
Małgorzata Kania-Dobrowolska
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Food Category ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Novel Foods ◽  
Food Legislation ◽  
Definition Of

Summary A lot of products from food category specified in Regulation No. 609/2013 may contain herbal substances or their preparations. Definitions of food for infants and toddlers, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control are now clearly regulated by UE food legislation. The concept and definition of foodstuffs for particular nutritional published in Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and Council of 6 May 2009 do not apply. On 22 February 2019, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/128 complementary to Regulation (EU) No. 609/2013, regarding specific compositional and information requirements for food of special medical purposes was applied. Novel foods and novel food ingredients are foods which have not been used for human consumption in UE to a significant degree before 15 May 1997.

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