Brussels, 12/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has given its approval for two new food ingredients - one fruit juice and one vegetable oil - under the Regulation 258/97, the so-called Novel Food Regulation, which defines the procedures for marketing approval of novel foods and food ingredients.
This concerns the juice of noni (a variety of blackberry that grows in Polynesia and in other parts of South East Asia) intended for use in pasteurised fruit juices, as well as an oil...