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As is the case for medicines, novel foods or food ingredients have to be officially approved before introduction to the European market. An application for approval must be submitted to both the competent authority in one of the European member states and to the European Commission.
In the Netherlands, the competent authority is the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

The Ministry asks the Novel Foods Unit of the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) to assess the safety of novel foods. These assessments are based on EU Regulation 258/97 and the accompanying Recommendation 97/618/EC. The Unit performs this task with the aid of an independent panel of experts: the Committee on Safety Assessment of Novel Foods (Dutch: Commissie Veiligheidsbeoordeling Nieuwe Voedingsmiddelen, VNV).

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