Commission authorizes magnesium L-threonate as a novel food
European Union
Oct 18, 2024
With implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2694 of 17 October 2024, the Commission authorising the placing on the market of magnesium L-threonate as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470.
On 28 June 2021, the Commission requested the European Food Safety Authority to carry out an assessment of magnesium L-threonate as a novel food. Furthermore, the Commission considered that magnesium L-threonate was to be considered as a source of magnesium in the context of Directive 2002/46/EC. Therefore, the Commission requested the Authority to evaluate, following the outcome of the novel food assessment, the safety and bioavailability of the novel food when added for nutritional purposes as a source of magnesium to food supplements.
On 30 January 2024, the Authority adopted its scientific opinion on the ‘Safety of magnesium L-threonate as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 and bioavailability of magnesium from this source in the context of Directive 2002/46/EC’ (9) in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
In its scientific opinion, the Authority concluded that the novel food, magnesium L-threonate, is safe under the proposed conditions of use. The Authority also considered that the novel food is a source from which magnesium is bioavailable.
Therefore, that scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds to establish that magnesium L-threonate, when used under the proposed conditions of use fulfils the conditions for its placing on the market in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.
It is appropriate that the inclusion of magnesium L-threonate as a novel food in the Union list of novel foods contains the information referred to in Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. In line with the conditions of use of food supplements containing magnesium L-threonate as proposed by the applicant and assessed by the Authority, it is necessary to inform the consumers in that regard by appropriate labelling about the uses of food supplements containing magnesium L-threonate.
Magnesium L-threonate should be included in the Union list of novel foods set out in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470. The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 should therefore be amended accordingly.
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