EU notified procedural steps of the consultation process for determination of novel food European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate-General has notified procedural steps of the consultation process for determination of novel food. According to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 on novel foods, the European Commission has to specify the procedural steps of the consultation process established in Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 including deadlines and the means to make the status publicly available. Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 establishes that, where food business operators (FBOs) are unsure whether or not a food which they intend to place on the market within the European Union falls within the scope of this Regulation, FBOs shall consult the EU member State where they first intend to place the novel food on the market. FBOs shall provide the necessary information to that EU member State to enable the determination whether or not a food falls within the scope of this Regulation. In order to carry out such determination, the EU member State may consult other member States and the European Commission Products covered: Novel food Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): December 2017 Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): December 2017 Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 6 October 2017 | 
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