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... novel food legislation covers food that has not been consumed to any significant degree in the eu before may 1997 ... no novel foods applications or approvals of products from cloned animals have been made, said fsa ... “as the uk authority responsible for accepting novel food applications, the agency has not received any applications relating to cloning and no authorisations have been made,” said fsa ... it added that it “will, of course, investigate any reports of unauthorised novel foods entering the food chain” ... regulation foods from cloned animals are covered by regulation (ec) 258/97 on novel foods, because the foods are derived from animals that are obtained by non-traditional breeding techniques ... and no application was been made by any company in order to put foods from cloned animals on the market

... since then new novel foods applications for steviol glycosides and for the whole leaf have been lodged with the european food safety authority, and opinions are expected next year ... “we discovered the natural existence of a natural sugar that can be extracted from a plant called stevia rebaudiana bertoni, and that this could be a real alternative to industrial sugars and sweeteners, thus allowing my daughter to eat sweet foods just like any other child,” he said

... european union novel foods applications will be processed more quickly and the definition of what constitutes a novel food broadened, if a proposal for a new novel foods regulation is accepted by the european parliament (ep) ... “if so, she may be the right person to carry the novel foods dossier forward ... ” europe's novel foods regulation (ec no 258/97) requires any food or ingredient not commonly consumed in the eu prior to may 1997 to undergo safety assessment before it can be sold across the eu's 27-member bloc ... novel foods reform detail the ep agreed on a simplified authorisation or notification procedure for foods and ingredients from those third countries with a safe history of use which could cut processing times from three years or more to around one year ... the march 25 ep plenary session agreed a number of issues including bringing novel additives, enzymes and flavours into the rule if not produced before 15 may 1997 and if they significantly altered the composition or structure of foods ... “however, there was no agreement on special labelling conditions for foods produced with aid of nanotechnology ... ” the definition of ‘traditional food from a third country’ was altered so that a natural non-engineered novel food with at least a 25-year history of food use in a third country, would also fall under a proposed rule, wesolowska said ... post-market monitoring of novel foods was also agreed upon

... companies submit dossiers and studies on new foods and ingredients to efsa, which assesses whether these would pose a health risk to people ... among those, are three scientific opinions on applications for the placing on the market of genetically modified plants ... one panel dealt with three dossiers related to novel foods applications ... the panel issued an opinion on the safety of noni juice, a novel food ingredient authorised in 2003 ... the panel also issued two statements related to novel foods applications, one on rice drinks with added phytosterols and another one on the addition of dha-rich oil from micro algae to an extended range of foods