➡️ What is the Novel Food status Catalogue?
It is a tool to check if a product can be put on the EU market as food or food supplement 🥗, or it has to be authorized by the EU because it is «novel» and as such has to pass a safety assessment: Novel Food status Catalogue (New)
➡️ What about algae products?
Algae products in the Catalog include more than 60 entries covering several species of microalgae and seaweed whole biomass and products derived thereof (extracts, oils).
➡️ Some definitions:
«Not novel in food / in food supplements» = was present in EU people diet before 1997 (creation of the NF Catalogue) and is recognized as safe. It is a “normal” food (does not contain food additives) or food supplement, and its access to the market is not subject to the pre-market authorization. Example: Spirulina biomass / Haematococcus biomass.
⚠️ Any other food uses of a food supplement product might be considered to be novel and consequently might need to be authorized pursuant to the requirements of the Novel Food Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 &.
➡️ What are the new additions?
🌱 Microalgae:
- Chlorella sorokiniana: not novel in food
- Dunaliella salina (Dunal): not novel in food supplements
- Graesiella emersonii: not novel in food
- Haematococcus lacustris: not novel in food supplements
- Jaagichlorella luteoviridis: not novel in food
- Limnospira fusiformis: not novel in food
- Limnospira indica: not novel in food supplements
- Limnospira maxima: not novel in food supplements
- Parachlorella kessleri: not novel in food
- Scenedesmus vacuolatus: not novel in food
- Spirulina major: not novel in food
🌱 Macroalgae:
- Alsidium helminthochorton: not novel in food supplements
- Corallina officinalis: not novel in food supplements
- Durvillaea antarctica: not novel in food supplements
- Ecklonia cava: whole - not novel in food supplements
- Erythroglossum laciniatum: not novel in food
- Eucheuma denticulatum: not novel in food supplements
- Eucheuma horridum: not novel in food supplements
- Gelidium amansii: not novel in food
- Gelidium corneum: not novel in food
- Gracilaria gracilis: not novel in food supplements
- Laminaria hyperborea: not novel in food
- Macrocystis pyrifera: not novel in food supplements
- Mastocarpus stellatus: not novel in food supplements
- Neopyropia leucosticta: not novel in food
- Porphyra dioica: not novel in food
- Porphyra purpurea: not novel in food
- Porphyra umbilicalis: not novel in food
- Pyropia yezoensis: not novel in food
- Saccharina japonica: not novel in food
- Sargassum fusiforme: not novel in food
- Ulva intestinalis: not novel in food
💻Find this document in the section Resources : Algae as Novel Food in Europe
