Regulation (EC) 1925/2006 on the addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods.
This regulation harmonises fortification legislation throughout Europe. This legislation does not apply to foods for particular nutritional uses e.g. infant formulae. In essence it:
- Generally permits fortification of all foodstuffs with the exception of unprocessed foods such as fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish and alcoholic beverages containing more than 1.2% alcohol.
- Creates a positive list of vitamin and mineral nutrients that may be added to foods and specifies the forms in which those nutrients may be supplied according to their bioavailabity and safety.
- Requires that the vitamin and mineral ingredients must meet the standards stipulated in internationally recognised purity criteria.
- Requires that foods that have been fortified need to include full nutritional information on their packaging and that the levels added must be “significant”.
- Establishes free trade within the EU of products that meet the requirements of the legislation.
