Applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: one novel food and one food additive

We are seeking stakeholders’ views in relation to regulated product applications for authorisation of miscellaneous regulated products: one novel food and one food additive.

This consultation will be of most interest to:

• Food industry trade associations. 
• Food business operators in the UK wishing to use the novel food or food additive. 
• Enforcement Authorities, including Local Authorities, Port Health Authorities and District Councils.   
• Consumers and wider stakeholders

Consultation subject and purpose

We recently consulted on four miscellaneous regulated product applications: two novel foods, one flavouring and one food additive. However, we have identified that there had been an error and an omission in the information published for one of the novel foods, and an omission in the food additive information within the original consultation.  We are therefore ensuring that stakeholders are made aware of these  and are given the further chance to comment. The consultation concerns the following regulated products:

RP1158    Vitamin D₂ mushroom powder - novel food
RP1194    Rebaudioside M – food additive

We ask stakeholders to consider any relevant provisions of retained EU law and other legitimate factors (other evidence further supporting clear, rational and justifiable risk analysis, such as technical feasibility and environmental factors). This consultation provides the opportunity for stakeholders’ views to be taken, to inform Ministers. 

A parallel consultation for the omission within the food additive information is being published by FSS. Please note that the error and omission for the novel food was not present within FSS’s original consultation.  

Read the full consultation packs

These consultation packs provide the background information and details you will need to know in order to respond to the questions in this consultation.  The consultation document is also accessible via these pages. 

Consultation on the application for authorisation of a novel food: vitamin D2 mushroom powder (RP1158) (accessible version)

Consultation on the specification for food additive rebaudioside M (RP1194) (accessible version)

How to respond

Comments should be provided within 2 weeks of the date of this publication and any comments received are subject to the same privacy statement as consultations, details of which can be found in our consultations privacy notice. 

Comments should be emailed to:  RPconsultations@food.gov.uk with the subject line ‘Regulated products consultation’ and relevant RP number.

Please state in your response whether you are responding as a private individual or on behalf of an organisation/company (including details of any stakeholders your organisation represents) and in which nation you are based.

Next steps

Any feedback to this revision will be considered, along with the consultation responses, when finalising advice to UK Ministers. 

Publication of response summary

We aim to publish a summary of responses to this consultation within 12 weeks of the consultation closing. You can find information on how we handle data provided in response to consultation on our consultations privacy notice.

Further information

If you require a more accessible format of this document, please send details to the name contact for responses to this consultation and your request will be considered.

This consultation has been prepared in according with HM Government Consultation Principles.