Special Nutrition Food
The increasing overlap between foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (“PARNUTs”), including sports foods or “foods intended for the expenditure of intense muscular effort” and other categories of food, including food supplements, is at the origin of the abolition of the whole category of PARNUTs and its replacement by Regulation 609/2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control ("Food for Specific Groups"), which entered into force on July 20, 2016.

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We represented the world's top dairy producer in a high profile application for the use of the term "probiotic"; in the EU, coordinating the work in several EU countries
01We represented one of the global leaders in the life science markets refuting a forthcoming Spanish policy directly affecting one of their top-grossing ingredients, by filing a complaint before the European Commission
02We represented one of Japan's largest food-processing companies in the impact of new GMO rules for their products in Poland and Russia
03We advised one of the world's leading companies in the healthcare and medical products industry with their communication strategy on health claims on their flagship line of products
04We performed the regulatory due diligence in a multi-million dollar acquisition of a food ingredients producer by an animal by-products processing company
05We represented one of the world's fruit and fruit juice manufacturers on the conformity of the labelling of their new products in several jurisdictions
06We advised the world's number one online food supplement store in their expansion in the EU with their own line of products
07We analyzed composition and labelling of their products, classified them and placed them on several EU countries
08We represented a publicly traded pharmaceutical company based on several food policy issues such as advertising claims, withdrawals and recalls and the placing on the market of novel food
09We advised one of the world's largest food ingredients companies on a high profile, highly confidential issue with one of their top-grossing products in a EU country
10We assisted a food sector association in advocating a policy revision by the European Commission in relation to health claims
11We helped one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with the negotiation with the authorities in connection with the withdrawal of one of their flagship products from the market
12We helped several governments to draft several food safety policies
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON WEIGHT MANAGEMENT FOODS IN THE EU
What products fall into the category of weight management foods?
Should these products be sold under certain names?
Is the composition of these products regulated?
May these products be used for an unlimited period of time?
May these products set references to the rate or amount of weight loss resulted from their use?
6. Does Regulation 609/2013 apply to individual meal replacements?
Are there restrictions in place to prevent to the use of specific substances in total diet replacement products?
Are there further specific rules applicable to total diet replacement products?
Are there specific rules applicable to individual meal replacement products?
May weight control management products be notified automatically notified in all Member States?
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