Commission authorizes the marketing of roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) as a traditional food from a third country

With the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2025/1263 of 30 June 2025, the Commission authorising the placing on the market of roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) as a traditional food from a third country and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470.

On 16 March 2023, the cooperative ‘CoopCerrado – Cooperativa Mista de Agricultores Familiares, Extrativistas, Pescadores, Vazanteiros, Assentados e Indígenas do Cerrado’ (‘the applicant’), formerly known as ‘CoopCerrado –Cooperativa Mista de Agricultores Familiares, Extrativistas, Pescadores, Vazanteiros, Assentados e Guias turisticos do Cerrado’ submitted a notification to the Commission of their intention to place roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) on the Union market as a traditional food from a third country in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. The applicant requested that the food concerned be used as a whole food (roasted seeds) by the general population.

On 7 February 2025, the Authority published its ‘Technical Report on the notification of roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) as a traditional food from a third country pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283’ (3). In that report, the Authority concluded that the available data on the composition and the history of the requested use of roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) do not raise safety concerns.

The Commission should therefore authorise the placing on the market within the Union of roasted seeds of Dipteryx alata Vogel (baru) as a traditional food from a third country and update the Union list of novel foods accordingly.