Changes in the Regulation on Foods for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP)

The Provision of Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control will apply from 20 July 2016. This new Regulation establishes, among others, compositional and information requirements for the following categories of food:
a)    infant formula and follow-on formula;
b)    processed cereal-based food and baby food;

c)    food for special medical purposes;
d)    total diet replacement for weight control.
The Regulation also lays down a European Union list of substances that may be added to these categories of food and sets out rules applicable to the updating of that list. In addition, under this Regulation, the Commission may decide, by means of implementing acts whether a given food falls within the scope of this Regulation and to which specific category of food, a given food belongs.

What is important from a business perspective is that any food which does not comply with this new Regulation but complies with the repealed Directive and Regulation and which are placed on the market or labelled before 20 July 2016 may continue to be marketed after that date until stocks of such food are exhausted.
The Regulation is available under the link: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32013R0609