Novel Food (NF)

The Novel Foods email alert group covers activities relating to novel foods and nanotechnology, and follows developing issues including novel food applications and its regulatory framework. The group collates relevant regulatory developments and supports the overarching work of the FDF's Food Safety Committee (FSC) and Food Ingredients (FIG) Committee.

Novel foods are foods which have not been widely consumed by people in the UK or EU before May 1997, meaning these foods don’t have a ‘history of consumption’. Novel foods need to be authorised before they can be placed on the market in Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI(EU)). The European Union has a list of novel foods which have been authorised in the European Union. The FSA alongside the FSS have introduced a new register of authorised novel foods in Great Britain (GB).

For more information, please visit the FDF Novel Foods Toolkit.

NF documents

This alert group is open to all FDF member companies to follow (click 'Watch committee' below to receive email alerts).

Purpose

  • To ensure members are kept informed and provided with timely updates on policy developments in relation to novel food legisaltion impacting the UK/GB food industry.
  • To assist information gatehring to inform the FDF's influence, as necessary, of UK/GB government policy on novel food and nanotechnologies.
  • To contribute to relevent FoodDrinkEurope discussions and follow developments at EU level, with a view to influencing the regulatory environment.

Why follow?

  • Receive updates on relevant policy and legislation that could impact your business.
  • To contribute to consultations on relevant policy and legislation that could impact on your business relating to novel foods.
  • Opportunity to shape the FDF’s key priorities and policy positions

NF documents

FDF Food Safety and Authenticity Report (members only) - Mar 2025