Food supplements: Policymakers ask for more consumer information, fewer grey areas

 

The use of food supplements is on the rise in Europe and this has prompted calls from stakeholders and lawmakers to revise the 20-year-old legislation currently in place and make sure it is applied uniformly across the bloc.

The food supplement market has been steadily growing for a long time and the directive regulating the matter needs a revision, said Kerli Ats, an Estonian member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

“[The directive] is not applied uniformly across the EU. If the EU internal market is to function properly, it is essential for the legislation to be applied in a uniform way to enable safe products to circulate freely and unsafe products to be withdrawn from the market,” Ats told a recent EURACTIV event. (...)