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Roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb (makhana) authorized as a novel food

European Union

Mar 22, 2023

Roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb (makhana) authorized as a novel food

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/652 of 20 March 2023 authorising the placing on the market of roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb. (makhana) as a traditional food from a third country under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470.

Article 1

1.   The roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb. (makhana) are authorised to be placed on the market within the Union.

The roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb. (makhana) shall be included as a traditional food from a third country in the Union list of novel foods set out in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470.

 

ANNEX

The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 is amended as follows:

(1)

the following entry is inserted in Table 1 (Authorised novel foods):

Authorised novel food

Conditions under which the novel food may be used

Additional specific labelling requirements

Other requirements

‘Roasted and popped kernels from the seeds of Euryale ferox Salisb. (makhana) (Traditional food from a third country)

Specified food category

Maximum levels

The designation of the novel food on the labelling of the foodstuffs containing it shall be “roasted seeds of Euryale ferox” or “makhana (Euryale ferox) roasted seeds”’

 

Processed nuts

 

 

 

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