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IADSA NEWSFLASH MAY 2008 CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS CODEX: GMO labelling Definition of advertising for adoption Guidelines on nutrition labelling to be amended ASIA JAPAN: EUROPEAN UNION: GERMANY: IRELAND: NETHERLANDS: UNITED KINGDOM: Japan’s new dietary/food supplements law EUROPE Update on colours, sweeteners, additives EFSA assesses safety of lycopene Vegetarian glucosamine approved for EU use Health claims update EFSA conclusions on ‘inadequate’ dossiers Botanicals: changes to draft safety guidance Fish oils update The novel foods regulation Commission decision on guar gum from India Concerns about nutrition labelling schemes FSAI publishes multi-lingual labelling guidance Test programme for sports supplements Association queries EFSA opinion New guidelines on food safety NORTH AMERICA CANADA: UNITED STATES: Warning on heavy metals in Ayurvedic products FDA takes on extra food safety personnel Ephedra products recalled Prosecution for mislabelled product FDA analysis of problem selenium products Surveillance of dietary botanical supplements Association defends weight loss claims SOUTH AMERICA SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: New restrictions for potassium supplements? FSANZ ministers agree a regulatory system NZFSA warns against herbal tea INDEX OF ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS KEY EVENTS May 2008 1 IADSA The International Alliance of Dietary /Food Supplements Associations was founded in 1998 to address the globalization of dietary supplement markets and increasing regulatory challenges. IADSA brings together 54 dietary supplement associations with the aim of building a sound legislative and political environment for the development of the dietary supplement market worldwide. IADSA serves its worldwide network of associations and companies by: Providing a fast flow of regulatory and policy information on dietary supplements, ensuring that there is an awareness and understanding of new developments. Coordinating strategy and action on global regulatory issues, particularly in relation to Codex Alimentarius initiatives. Widening and deepening the network of associations around the world by helping the establishment of new dietary supplement associations and supporting existing national associations. Organizing global and regional events to promote dialogue on the scientific and regulatory issues underpinning the dietary supplement market. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS CODEX GMO LABELLING The Codex Committee on Food Labelling met in Ottawa early this month and discussed a number of issues that affect dietary supplements. Regarding the Labelling of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), the positions in the Committee continue to be very much divided on whether the labeling of GMO when these are not present in the final product but have been used during the production of the product should be mandatory or voluntary. The Working Group on GMO will meet again in Ghana, to work further on the proposed drat Recommendation presented during this year’s meeting. This text addresses the labelling of GMO and states that when “the characteristics of a food are significantly altered… the labelling of the food should be modified to ensure that the food is described … in a truthful manner…” The Committee agreed to circulate at Step 3 the proposed draft Recommendation for comments and consideration at next year’s Committee meeting. May 2008 2 For further information, contact the IADSA Secretariat at [email protected] DEFINITION OF ADVERTISING FOR ADOPTION The Labelling Committee agreed to request the Codex Commission, the decision-making body in Codex, to adopt and become official at its next meeting in July the definition of advertising in relation to nutrition and health claims. The definition as finalized by the Committee reads as follows: “Advertising means any commercial communication to the public, by any means other than labelling, in order to promote directly or indirectly, the sale or intake of a food through the use of nutrition and health claims in relation to the food and its ingredients.” The Committee further agreed to include this definition in the 2004 Guidelines for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims as a footnote under the section on the scope of the Guidelines. For further information, contact the IADSA Secretariat at [email protected] GUIDELINES ON NUTRITION LABELLING TO BE AMENDED In the context of the discussions on the Codex implementation of the 2004 World Health Organisation Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health, the Labelling Committee agreed to amend the Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling to address the list of nutrients to be declared and the legibility and readability of nutrition labels. This agreement for new work will have to be considered by the Codex Commission at its July meeting. The Committee also agreed that, subject to the Commission’s endorsement for new work, an electronic working group, led by New Zealand and assisted by Australia and Canada, would develop: (a) a paper examining the list of nutrients that would need to be declared on the label and, (b) another paper outlining the issues related to nutrition labelling to evaluate whether the nutrition declaration of all pre-packaged foods should be mandatory. In addition the Committee agreed that an electronic working group led by the US would develop criteria/principles for legibility and readability of nutrition labels. For further information, contact the IADSA Secretariat at [email protected] ASIA JAPAN JAPAN’S NEW DIETARY/FOOD SUPPLEMENTS LAW May 2008 3 The fundamental principles of the New Dietary / Food Supplements Law has recently been agreed by NNFA Japan and have been released to the media by NNFA Japan’s Legal Task Force Team. These principles comprise the following: 1. Name and Definition 2. Health Claims 3. Responsibilities of the Business Operator 4. Scientific Substantiation of Functional Ingredients regarding both Efficacy and Safety 5. Scientific Substantiation of Dietary / Foods Supplements regarding both efficacy and Safety 6. Assurance of Quality 7. Education/communication to consumers 8. Post Launch Monitoring and Reporting of Adverse Events The object of setting out these fundamental principles is to facilitate discussions among all relevant groups such as members of the Japanese Parliament, the supplement industry and other stakeholders, so as to be able to propose the new law to Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Source: NNFA Japan EUROPE EUROPEAN UNION UPDATE ON COLOURS, SWEETENERS, ADDITIVES The lead Environment Committee (ENVI) in the European Parliament has now adopted its amendments to the proposed legislation package for food additives/enzymes and flavourings. Points of particular interest include: ADDITIVES - AZO colours: the Committee added a clause that if there is evidence that a specific additive may cause undesirable side-effects (AZO dyes were quoted as an example), the Commission, in consultation with Member States, should take immediate action to ban such a substance. An amendment requiring that the labelling of food additives containing AZO dyes should carry a warning label was reintroduced despite rejection at first reading by the Commission because such labeling is outside the scope of this Regulation. ENZYMES - the Council of Ministers had already excluded enzymes for nutritional purposes from the scope of the regulation; the European Parliament Committee also excluded "enzymes for digestive purposes". FLAVOURS: the Committee’s view was that the adoption of the Community list of flavours should be postponed from 31 December May 2008 4 2008 to 31 December 2010 and should only be adopted after the completion of the evaluation program. Use of the term 'Natural": the Committee’s view was that 100% of the source material should be obtained from natural sources, thus removing several specific requirements relating to the percentage of source material to be derived from natural sources. Herbs and Spices: the Committee excluded herbs and spices from the scope of the regulation. It also reversed the proposed system on maximum levels: no maximum level is to be defined unless the European Food Safety Authority assesses the harmfulness of certain naturally occurring undesirable substances. In relation to children, the overall view of the Committee is that sweeteners and colours should not be allowed in foods aimed at children, and that additives should only be used if they provide an advantage to the consumer. The European Parliament is expected to vote in Plenary on this issue in July. Source: EHPM EFSA ASESSES SAFETY OF LYCOPENE The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked to assess the safety of the red food colour lycopene from all food sources, taking into account that contained naturally in fruit and vegetables and the use of lycopene as a food additive. Previous assessments of lycopene consumption in the European Union did not include naturally occurring lycopene found in tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables. The view of EFSA’s scientific panel is now that for the majority of consumers, intakes of lycopene from all sources - natural and where it has been purposely added to foods - are within an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of 0.5 per kilo of bodyweight per day. However, the panel also noted that the use of lycopene as a food colour adds significantly to overall intake, with flavoured drinks contributing up to 66% of intake in male adults, and more than 90% in pre-school children. As a result, high consumers of such products may exceed the ADI. Source: EHPM VEGETARIAN GLUCOSAMINE APPROVED FOR EU USE The Food Standards Agency of Ireland (FSAI) has determined that a vegetarian glucosamine ingredient from a company based in China is substantially equivalent to the glucosamine derived from shellfish that is currently on the market in the European Union (EU). May 2008 5 The FSAI’s opinion has been passed to the European Commission, who have now confirmed the FSAI determination, with the result that the ingredient may now be used in food supplements on the EU market. Source: EHPM HEALTH CLAIMS UPDATE - Guidance on Article l5 health claims: The European Commission’s guidance on the preparation of applications for the authorisation of health claims under Article 15 or 18 of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation (applications for disease risk reduction claims, claims involving new or proprietary data, and children’s health claims) has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Community. The text lays down technical rules for the preparation and presentation of the application for health claims, most of which are based on the principles of the existing European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Guidance which is now part of official EU legislation. In comparison with this Guidance, the new Regulation 353/2008 specifies more clearly that: "Each application shall cover only one relationship between a nutrient or other substance, or food or category of food, and a single claimed effect". "[substantiating data] shall consist primarily of studies in humans and, in the case of claims referring to children's development and health, from studies in children" Additionally, the Annex to the Regulation: requires that general principles for the scientific substantiation and details of food characteristics be provided confirms the rules in EFSA’s guidelines rules relating to the content of the summary and structure of the dossier application details the organisation of pertinent scientific and the hierarchy of studies to be provided. - Draft terms of reference for the evaluation of Article l3 (generic) health claims: The European Commission has now presented the Member State experts on health claims with its draft proposal for the terms of reference for EFSA when evaluating Article 13 (generic) health claims. As expected, the draft terms of reference appear to be largely inspired by EFSA’s views on the need for a strict approach to the evaluation of substantiating data, which is causing concerns as to the number of claims from the industry list that would meet these restrictive standards. EHPM and its members are taking these issues up with their authorities at national and EU level. May 2008 6 Source: EHPM EFSA CONCLUSIONS ON ‘INADEQUATE’ DOSSIERS The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has now completed its consideration of 120 dossiers relating to food supplements which were found not to be adequate for scientific assessment. Until now, these food supplements have remained on the market in Europe, through specific derogation, as a result of the submission of these limited dossiers. Now, as a result of the findings of EFSA’s scientific panel, the European Commission and Member States are considering the implications for the future status of these products in the European Union. These ‘inadequate’ dossiers were part of the 500 dossiers originally received by EFSA in 2005: applications for nutrient substances used in food supplements and food to be added to the Annexes of the Food Supplements Directive. About 170 dossiers have since been withdrawn, 9 opinions have been issued in relation to substances which relate to a further 30 dossiers, and work is on-going on the remainder. Source: EHPM BOTANICALS: CHANGES TO DRAFT SAFETY GUIDANCE The response from the food supplement industry to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)’s public consultation on their draft guidelines for botanicals was extremely large, with over 400 comments on the guidelines and 250 on the compendia. The revised guidance document is expected to be published shortly, together with all the comments received. It is understood that as a result of these comments, the text is likely to be adapted, as follows: Compendium 2 will be removed All references to product-specific requirements and the submission format for application will be removed All references to medicinal products are to be removed The requirements for toxicological testing will be aligned with the requirements for the registration of traditional herbal medicinal products. It is expected that the ESCO expert group will now start testing some botanicals, including Citrus aurantium (adulteration), Chamellia sinensis (liver toxicity), Artemisia absynthium (neurotoxicity), Ocimum sanctum (fertility toxicity), Foeniculum vulgare (carcinogen), Linum usitatissum (phytoestrogens), Echinacea angustifolia (medicinal-food use), Wheat bran (low concern). May 2008 7 Source: ERNA FISH OILS UPDATE At its April meeting the European Commission and Member States Working Group on Fish Oil failed to adopt the European Commission’s draft proposals, which included comment from industry. Thus discussions on Fish oil standards under EU hygiene rules remain open and the Commission has been asked to rework its draft proposal. The Commission has proposed a new draft based on the discussions during the meeting and including some of the comments from Industry, which has been sent to the Member States for comments before the May 19, meeting of the Working Group. Intensive lobbying has taken place at Member States level to support all of our comments and EHPM is closely monitoring the outcome of this working group, as this is the last chance to get this text adopted. If Member States fail to adopt these rules aimed at adapting hygiene requirements for fish oil intended for food supplement processing, the framework EU hygiene requirements would apply to import of fish oil in the EU. This would cause serious disruption of trade and supply of fish oil from third countries in Europe. Source: EHPM THE NOVEL FOODS REGULATION The European Commission is currently consulting on its proposals to update the approvals process for novel foods, and to clarify the definition of novel foods, including the latest developments in the area such as cloning and nanotechnology. The key proposals are to: speed up the approvals process by centralising the authorisation procedure develop a simplified safety assessment system for traditional food from non-European Union countries clarify the definition of novel food to take account of new technology, such as cloning and nanotechnology update the scope of the regulation in relation to parallel legislation on specific categories of foods, such as sources of vitamins and minerals provide some data protection for innovative products Source: EHPM May 2008 8 COMMISSION DECISION ON GUAR GUM FROM INDIA Further to our previous report on this issue, the European Commission has now published a Decision which imposes special conditions on guar gum which originates in or is consigned from India has now come into force. India produces nearly 90% of the world’s guar gum, and the reason for the Commission’s Decision is the perceived risk of contamination by pentachlorophenol and dioxins. The Commission Decision requires that all consignments of guar gum or products containing at least 10% guar gum originating in or consigned from India, which left India after 4 May 2008 and are imported into the European Community for human or animal consumption, shall be accompanied by an original analytical report issued by a laboratory accredited for the analysis of pentachlorophenol (PCP) in food and feed or by a laboratory that is pursuing the necessary accreditation procedures and which has adequate quality control schemes in place. The analytical report must demonstrate that the product does not contain more than 0.01 mg/kg pentachlorophenol (PCP). A list of laboratories in the European Union authorised to perform the PCP analysis can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemicalsafety/contaminants/new_measures_g uar_gum_india.pdf Source: EHPM GERMANY CONCERNS ABOUT NUTRITION LABELLING SCHEME The German Federation for Food Law and Food Science (BLL) has expressed concern at the lack of clarity from the German Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Affairs (BMELV) on its preferred scheme for nutrition labeling. The two possibilities on offer are a ‘traffic light’ scheme, as favoured by the Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom, or Guidance Daily Amounts (GDA). BLL favour the GDA approach, apparently the initial choice of the government, but since then the BMELV has developed a scheme similar to the ‘traffic light’ approach, using the colours red, orange and green. BMELV has now launched a consumer survey to try to determine which scheme would achieve greater acceptance, but no timescale has been given as to when the results can be expected - or whether they will be made public. Source: BLL IRELAND May 2008 9 FSAI PUBLISHES MULTI-LINGUAL LABELLING GUIDANCE To assist international companies comply with its national labeling rules, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has recently published multi-lingual labeling guidance. The Guidance is available in Arabic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Ukranian and Urdu. Food labels in Ireland must always be in English, although a second language, such as Irish, can also be used. Source: IHTA NETHERLANDS TEST PROGRAMME FOR SPORTS SUPPLEMENTS Since 2001 an off-shoot of the Dutch Association of Natural Product Manufacturers (NPN) has been running a testing programme that enables supplement manufacturers to have their products tested to World anti-Doping Agency (WADA) standards. The Netherlands Security System Nutritional Supplements Elite Sports (NZVT) was set up in response to a number of scandals where elite athletes were found to have ingested illegal substances, with food supplements often being named as the culprit. Under the NZVT’s scheme, products are tested in a laboratory that conforms with WADA standards, and, if they are found to be free of contaminants, are included in a positive list of products on the NZVT website. A similar scheme is now in operation in the United Kingdom. Source: NPN UNITED KINGDOM ASSOCIATION QUERIES EFSA OPINION Earlier this year, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA)’s scientific panel (AFC) published an opinion on six nutrient source ingredients intended for addition to Annex II of the Food Supplements Directive to supply Vanadium. EFSA’s opinion stated that, ‘safe use of these sources for vanadium added to foods intended for the general population (including food supplements and food for particular nutritional uses) cannot be established’. The Food Standards Agency in the UK has treated EFSA’s opinion as ‘unfavourable’ rather than ‘inconclusive’. For this reason, the supplement association, the Health Food Manufacturers Association (HFMA) has written May 2008 10 to both the Food Standards Agency and the European Commission to ask for their interpretation of the opinion with respect to triggering a withdrawal of derogation for these ingredients. The FSA is now awaiting the Commission’s response prior to further discussion with HFMA. Source: HFMA NEW GUIDELINES ON FOOD SAFETY The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published new guidance on ‘the quickest and most effective methods of alerting the greatest number of people’ about ‘food incidents’. A food incident is defined as ‘any event where, based on the information available, there are concerns about actual or suspected threats to the safety or quality of food that could require intervention to protect consumers’ interests’. For speed of action, the FSA’s website and the general media will be used to communicate food incidents, but, in response to industry concerns about the damaging effect of such communications, the agency has also pledged not to overstate risk, and where possible, ‘to let the producer, retailer or importer see the information it intends to make public before it does so’. Source: HFMA NORTH AMERICA CANADA WARNING ON HEAVY METALS IN AYURVEDIC PRODUCTS Health Canada has warned consumers that those who choose to use unapproved Ayurvedic medicinal products may be putting themselves at risk because some products contain high levels of heavy metals. In a recent case, an adult male with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea was found to have been taking one tablet daily of an unauthorised Ayurvedic product which, on analysis, was found to contain high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic. Source: CHFA UNITED STATES FDA TAKES ON EXTRA FOOD SAFETY PERSONNEL May 2008 11 The US Food and Drug Administration has recently announced its intention of taking on over one thousand new staff to help implement the requirements of the 2007 FDA Amendments Act, in particular, the Food Protection Plan and the Import Safety Plan. Both the Food Protection Plan and the Import Safety Plan aim to increase food safety by preventing contamination in the domestic food chain and ensuring the safety of imported food. Included in the measures to be used to achieve this will be more stringent inspections, tougher penalties and mandatory recalls. Source: CRN US EPHEDRA PRODUCTS RECALLED Nine dietary supplement product containing the banned ingredient Ephedra have been recalled on the grounds that ‘they may present a serious health hazard to consumers’ Supplement industry associations, including the Council for Responsible Nutrition and the Natural Products Association have been quick to express their support of the recall. Source: CRN US / NPA PROSECUTION FOR MISLABELLED PRODUCT An American company has pleaded guilty to conspiring to market and sell a prescription drug by falsely labelling it as a dietary supplement, thereby endangering those for whom the main ingredient, sildenafil citrate, is contraindicated. The product was sold over the internet as a purely herbal alternative to Viagra, and was marketed as ‘certainly less expensive’ and ‘probably safer’. Source: AHPA FDA ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM SELENIUM PRODUCTS The US Food and Drug Administration has now completed its analysis of certain flavours of range of products reported to contain hazardous amounts of selenium. On further analysis, in addition to high levels of selenium, the products were found to contain chromium at levels of up to 17 times the recommended adult daily intake of 35 - 35 micrograms per day. Source: UNPA May 2008 12 SURVEILLANCE OF DIETARY BOTANICAL SUPPLEMENTS Following concerns about the adequacy of dietary botanical supplement (DBS) surveillance in the United States, a recent study set out to characterise data on DBS associated with adverse event reports submitted to the Food and Drug Administration’s Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s Adverse Event Reporting System (CAERS). Data from 1999 to 2003 involving adverse events associated with the six most frequently used DBS: Echinacea, Ginseng, Garlic, Ginkgo biloba, St. John’s Wort and peppermint was analysed. It was found that reports involving ginseng were the most frequent, and St John’s wort the least frequent. Most reports involved multiple ingredient DBS, with gastro-intestinal and neurologic problems the most common clinical outcomes among single-ingredient DBS. The report concluded that the CAERS surveillance system is potentially effective, but that reported incidents may under-represent DBS adverse events. Source: AHPA ASSOCIATION DEFENDS WEIGHT LOSS CLAIMS The US Council for Responsible Nutrition has announced that it intends to oppose a petition which asks the Food and Drug industry to treat weight loss claims for dietary supplements as disease claims. CRN president, Steven Mister, is quoted as saying ‘We believe weight loss claims are legitimate and appropriate claims for products in the dietary supplement category, provided these products have substantiation to support the truthfulness of these claims’. Source; CRN USA SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND NEW RESTRICTIONS FOR POTASSIUM SUPPLEMENTS? The Australian regulator is considering implementing further restrictions on the sale of supplements (regarded as Therapeutic Products in Australia), containing potassium. Because of safety concerns a label warning statement is already required for glucosamine sulfate potassium chloride complex supplements. Now, there is also a proposal to require child resistant closures for products containing potassium salts in packs containing more than 4000 milligrams of elemental potassium, with the exception of divided preparations where the amount of May 2008 13 elemental potassium per dosage unit is 40 milligrams or less. Source: CHC FSANZ MINISTERS AGREE A REGULATORY SYSTEM Strategic policy and food standards issues were on the agenda of the recent meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council, the body responsible for food issues in Australia and New Zealand. In particular the Council considered the strategic direction of the Australian and New Zealand Food Regulatory System and endorsed the 'Overarching Strategic Statement for the Food Regulatory System' that provides the strategic context for the Australian and New Zealand food regulation system. This document articulates the scope and objectives of the food regulation system, the approach that will be taken to policy development, standard setting and implementation and will shortly be available on www.foodsecretariat.health.gov.au A draft standard on nutrition, heath and related claims was also amongst the issues discussed at the meeting. Source: CHC NZFSA WARNS AGAINST HERBAL TEA The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) is warning people not to consume seeds that may be found in a Chinese herbal tea made from the plant Abrus Cantoniensis sold in retail packs under various brand names. Also known as Canton Love Pea or Herba Abri, NZFSA is advising anyone who has the product not to consume it and to return it to the place of purchase. The plant is not permitted to be sold as a food or food ingredient under the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code as the seeds and possibly the seed pods are believed to be toxic. Source: NPNZ May 2008 14 INDEX OF ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS AHPA (US) (American Herbal Products Association): [email protected] BLL (Bund für Lebensmittelrecht und Lebensmittelkunde eV): [email protected] CHC (Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia): [email protected] CHFA (Canadian Health Food Association): [email protected] CRN (US) (Council for Responsible Nutrition): [email protected] EHPM (European Federation of Associations of Health Product Manufacturers): [email protected] ERNA (European Responsible Nutrition Alliance): [email protected] HFMA (UK) (Health Food Manufacturers’ Association): [email protected] IHTA (Irish Health Trade Association): [email protected] NNFAJ (National Nutritional Foods Association of Japan): [email protected] NPA (US) (Natural Products Association): [email protected] NPN (Natuur- & GezondheidsProducten Nederland): [email protected] NPNZ (Natural Products New Zealand Inc.): [email protected] UNPA (US) (United Natural Products Alliance): [email protected] May 2008 15 KEY EVENTS: JUNE - DECEMBER 2008 Date June 03 -05 June 24 -26 Conference Food Ingredients South America http://south-america2008.fievents.com/content/default.aspx Health Ingredients/ Food Ingredients/ Natural Ingredients Asia-China http://asiachina2008.fi-events.com/ Place São Paulo, Brazil Shanghai, China June 26 -28 Natural Products Expo Asia www.naturalproductsasia.com/ Hong Kong, China June 25 -28 Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius www.codexalimentarius.net Geneva, Switzerland June 26 -28 Natural Products Expo Asia www.naturalproductsasia.com/ Hong Kong, China June 30 -July 05 Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) www.codexalimentarius.net Geneva, Switzerland July 13 -15 Cosmoprof North America 2008 -The Business of Beauty www.cosmoprofnorthamerica.com/ Las Vegas, NV, United States July 17 -19 Natural MarketPlace 2008 www.naturalproductsassoc.org Las Vegas, NV, United States September 11 -14 CHFA Expo East www.chfa.ca Toronto, Canada September 11 -14 SANA 2008 www.sana.it Bologna, Italy September 24 -26 October 03 -04 Food Ingredients Asia http://asia2008.fievents.com/content/default.aspx Food Ingredients India http://india2008.fievents.com/content/default.aspx Bangkok, Thailand Mumbai, India October 15 -18 Natural Products Expo East www.expoeast.com/ Boston, MA, United States October 22 -24 Supply Side West www.supplysideshow.com/west/ Las Vegas, NV, United States May 2008 16 November 04 -06 Natural Ingredients/ Health Ingredients Europe 2008 www.ni-events.com / www.hi-events.com Paris Nord, Villepinte, France Date Conference Place Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) www.codexalimentarius.net South Africa (city to be confirmed) November 03 -07 Prepared by the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF DIETARY/FOOD SUPPLEMENT ASSOCIATIONS rue de l’ Association 50 B-1000 Brussels Tel: (00) (32) (2) 209 11 55; Fax: (00) (32) (2) 223 30 64, E-mail: [email protected] - Website: www.iadsa.org IADSA endeavours to check the veracity of information covered in the Newsflash, but cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies in the articles published. 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