Innovative food and feed processing technologies Which legal framework for the use of new technologies in food and feed areas?

摘要

Novel food, nutrition, novel technologies, feed, NBTs, regulation.Within the European Union, food and feed law does not focus on novel technologies, but on the final products, obtained by those new production processes. Innovation through new technologies in the agri-food industry mainly requires a pre-market authorization of the final products, delivered by the European Commission, after a safety assessment made by the European Food Safety Authority. These legal procedures apply to both novel and genetically modified foods or food ingredients, but only to GM feeds, as there is no comparison to novel food procedure in the feed area, where only feed additives must be authorized.