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Commission authorizes Lemna minor and Lemna gibba plants as novel food

European Union

Jan 30, 2025

With the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2025/153 of 29 January 2025, the Commission authorizes the placing on the market of Lemna minor and Lemna gibba plants as novel foods and the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 is amended.

On 20 May 2020, the company Wageningen Plant Research (‘the applicant’) submitted an application for an authorisation to the Commission in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 to place Lemna minor and Lemna gibba plants on the Union market as novel food. The applicant requested for the novel food to be used as a vegetable, similar to other leafy vegetables, cooked or added to ready-to-eat products for the general population.

On 28 September 2022, the Authority adopted its scientific opinion on the ‘Safety of Lemna minor and Lemna gibba whole plant material as novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283’ in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

 

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On that basis, the Commission considers that the scientific opinion and the technical report give sufficient grounds to establish that Lemna gibba and Lemna minor plants fulfil the conditions for their placing on the market in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

It is appropriate that the inclusion of Lemna minor and Lemna gibba plants as novel food in the Union list of novel foods contains the information referred to in Article 9(3) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

Lemna minor and Lemna gibba plants 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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