The DGAL, through Synadiet, organized 2 webinars (on April 23 and 29, 2024) for manufacturers in the food supplements sector. These 2 webinars aimed to present the next steps to come in 2024 concerning the change of administration and therefore of the notification system for food supplements on the French market. During these webinars, the DGAL explicitly stated its desire to build the new tool in a scalable manner and in collaboration with the various feedback from manufacturers. Thus, the DGAL was able to announce the opening of the beta versions of the ingredients database and the new Compl’Alim notification platform, before their official launches planned for the 2024 school year (September). Until September, Téléicare remains the official platform for notifying your food supplements, but will become obsolete upon the official launch of Compl’Alim.
In order to be marketed on the French market, a food supplement must be subject to a prior declaration to the competent authority in accordance with Decree No. 2006-352 on food supplements. Since February 3, 2023, food supplements have been declared to the Directorate General for Food using the online declaration platform téléicare.
Since the beginning of 2023, it is possible to use the word probiotic on food supplements in France. Here follows a comparison with the situation in Italy and in Spain.
Monday January 31 was marked by a series of events to advance on the contribution of French agriculture to the carbon neutrality objective of France and the European Union. The agricultural and forestry sector, as an emitter and collector of greenhouse gases, is at the heart of France’s national low-carbon strategy. Goal: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Besides the presence of the common views listed in Part 1, it is also possible to identify certain elements that are specific to, and characteristic of, each country.
France and Italy are often seen as “cousin” countries because of their geographical and cultural proximity. Is this peculiar closeness observable within the food supplement field, too? In this article, we will compare the approach of the two countries to this class of goods.
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as soon as the containment was announced from March 17 to May 11, 2020, Public
On March 19, 2021, Agence bio presented the first results of the 18th barometer on the consumption of organic products in France
Santé publique France a publié un article dans le bulletin épidémiologique de juin 2020 sur les niveaux d’activité physique et de sédentarité
The French ADEME has published its barometer on social representations of the greenhouse effect and climate change for the 20th consecutive year.
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