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Sweden Issues Food Supplement Regulations

2023-05-26

On 22 May 2023, the Swedish Food Safety Authority published Notice 2023:3, the Food Supplements Regulation. The main elements of the regulation include:
(1) Scope of application (domestically produced or imported food supplements sold within Sweden);
(2) Definition of products, food supplements refer to food products that are used as a concentrated source of nutrients and other specific physiologically active substances and to supplement the normal diet, and the product forms are generally capsules, powders, tablets, tablets, ingestibles, drops, etc., and it is also stipulated that food supplements can only be sold in the form of pre-packaged food products for consumers;
(3) Packaging and labelling requirements for food supplements, including that they must be labelled with the name and content of the nutrient or characteristic substance supplemented, the recommended daily serving size and the maximum serving size, and that they must not contain expressions indicating or implying that a normal diet does not satisfy the nutritional requirements of the human body;
(4) Requirements for raw and auxiliary materials used in the production and processing of food supplements, etc.
The regulation comes into effect on 1 July 2023.

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