Food Supplement Ordinance.

The present Ordinance introduces the Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements into German national legislation. It concerns the sale of food supplements which are sold as food and presented as such. A food supplement is defined as a food sold in dose form whose purpose is to supplement the normal diet and which is a concentrated source of a vitamin or mineral or other substance with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination. Only the vitamins and minerals listed out in Annex I may be used in the manufacture of food supplements. On the other side, Annex II specifies the vitamin and mineral substances which may be used when manufacturing food supplements. The labelling, presentation and advertising must not attribute to food supplements the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease, or refer to such properties. The text consists of 7 articles and 2 Annexes.