Food supplements are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fibre, enzymes, various plants and herbal extracts.
Dietary supplements are marketed in forms such as tablets, capsules, pills, powders, and liquids in measured doses).1, 2
Food supplements are intended to correct nutritional deficiencies, maintain an adequate intake of certain nutrients or to support specific physiological functions.1 Unlike drugs, supplements are not permitted to be marketed for the purpose of treating, diagnosing, preventing, or curing diseases.2 In the EU, food supplements are regulated as foods.
In view of the above Neotron aims to support clients with its expertise to put safe products in the market in order to guarantee the food safety and human health and well-being. Neotron offers analyses of vitamins and minerals which may be declared in food supplements according to Annex I to Dir. (EC) No 46/2002 (see Figure 1):
Furthermore, Neotron provides analyses of contaminants in food supplements like: pyrrolizidine alkaloids, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), hydroxyanthracene derivatives and various further analyses.
For more information please contact us.
References:
- European Commission, Food safety, Food supplements.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administra:on (FDA), Dietary Supplements, May 2017.
- Direc:ve (EC) 46/2002 of 10 June 2002 on the approxima:on of the laws of the Member States rela:ng to food supplements.
