The nutritional supplement area is ruled by the European Directive 2002/46/CE in order to ensure both an high standard of public health safeguard and a free flow of these products within European Union, guaranteeing an optimal consumer’s information and security through an appropriate labeling.
According to the European regulatory framework, food supplements means foodstuffs the purpose of which is to supplement the normal diet and which are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination. Usually they’re marketed in dose form, namely forms such as capsules, pastilles, tablets, pills and other similar forms, sachets of powder, ampoules of liquids, drop dispensing bottles, and other similar forms of liquids and powders designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities.
In Italy, a food supplement can be commercialized on the market exclusively after being notified to the Department of Health. SAPORITI CONSULTING helps companies launching new nutritional supplements and reviewing already marketed products with the following services offer: