European Union manufacturers of vitamin and mineral-enriched foods should include recommended daily intakes of added substances on product labels, alongside a warning not to exceed this allowance, MEPs have proposed.
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The European Parliament’s environment and food safety committee has tabled this as an amendment to a proposed regulation on vitamins and minerals in food. The legislation tries to harmonise the patchwork of national rules on the subject that impede trade, listing more than 100 vitamin and mineral substances that can be added to food. Assuming final approval, the regulation bans adding these substances to fresh non-processed produce: fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish.
