The European novel food regulation, updated to simplify the authorisation procedure in order to encourage innovation and allow these foodstuffs to be brought to the market more quickly, came into force on 1 January 2018.
EU Regulation 2015/2283 repeals Regulation 258/97 on novel foods and novel food ingredients.
Novel foods are foodstuffs, such as extract of magnolia bark, phytosterols, guar gum, noni juice and Baobab dried fruit pulp which had not been consumed to any significant degree in...