8 May, 2017

Food supplements consultants

 

Advisors in food supplements: registration and notification.

It is important to have a team of advisors in food supplements given the amount of existing standards and legal uncertainty created by health authorities.

LegaleGo Nutrition, is a multidisciplinary team of lawyers and technicians that adapts to each company. We specialize in the management of product quality, food safety and legal procedures to obtain sanitary authorizations and registration of food products for marketing.

As advisors in food supplements, our greatest advantage is the knowledge and experience in formulation, processing, processing and registration of food supplements Food supplements and everything related to special food, should be governed by the specific and sectorial legislation of food supplements and by the general on food security.

LegaleGo Nutritión offers a wide range of legal and technical consulting services regarding the composition, labeling, registration and notification of food supplements in Spain and throughout the European Union.

Legal Review of the label

It is necessary that the food supplement label meets all legal requirements. Therefore, we carry out a complete review of the label with all texts (nutritional information, ingredients, allergens, nutritional claims and health claims), graphic elements, font size, design and field of vision. Once we carry out the review, we prepare a formal report with comments regarding all relevant aspects of labeling. In this report, we notify you of all the modifications to be made in order to ensure that each label meets the mandatory labeling standards:

• Inclusion of legal references.
• Proposal of authorized nutritional and health claims based on the composition of the food supplement studied.
• Label creation according to current legislation.
• Text proposal to be included in the food supplements label based on the product data sheet or formulation provided.
• Product name.
• Identification of the company.
• Date marking.
• List of ingredients.
• Allergen Statement.
• Additional mandatory declarations or warnings.
• Mandatory nutritional information.
• Proposal of nutritional and health claims authorized for the study supplement.
• Everything necessary for compliance with the legislation.

Notification of food supplements in Spain and other Member States

In accordance with the provisions of the food supplements regulations, the person responsible for marketing them must notify the competent authorities of their placing on the national market. This procedure must be carried out prior or simultaneous to the first placing on the market. Said mandatory notification must be made by the manufacturer or the person responsible for the first placing on the market or the importer (in the case of third countries).

Given the limitations established in Spain for the addition of substances to food supplements, it is necessary before notifying Spanish territory to notify another country of the European Union through mutual recognition. Currently, as advisors on food supplements, we notify in Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal, Malta, Ireland and Italy, expanding more and more the states in which to notify. Beforehand, we analyze the label and the technical sheet to check if the food supplement complies with the country’s regulations.

Consult Formulations

As advisors in food supplements experts in the field and thanks to the team of food technologists, we resolve all issues related to the introduction into food supplements of certain substances or certain formulations. Since many new products carry plants or substances with certain natures, prior to any investment, it is convenient to analyze the legal scope of the product.