Notice - Notification of WTO Members: Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1760 of 1 October 2015 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards removal from the Union list of the flavouring substance p-mentha-1,8-dien-7-al
WTO code |
G/SPS/N/EU/149 |
Date notice |
23/10/2015 |
Notice type |
Regular |
Title |
Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1760 of 1 October 2015 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards removal from the Union list of the flavouring substance p-mentha-1,8-dien-7-al |
Summary |
The Union list of flavourings and source materials is laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1334/3008. It was established by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 872/2012 of 1 October 2012 adopting the list of flavouring substances notified in G/SPS/N/EU/13/Add.1 (12 October 2012) which is now amended by this Regulation. This addendum concerns the removal of the flavouring substance p-mentha-1,8-dien-7- al (FL-no 05.117) from the European Union list of flavourings following the European Food Safety Authority opinion of 24 June 2015 which concluded that p-mentha-1,8-dien- 7-al (FL-no 05.117) is genotoxic in vivo and therefore its use as a flavouring substance raises a safety concern. The measure has been taken in urgency in view of this EFSA assessment. It is therefore not notified as a draft but as a final measure. It is submitted for information of our WTO partners. The EFSA opinion is available as Scientific Opinion on Flavouring Group Evaluation 208 Revision 1 (FGE.208Rev1): Consideration of genotoxicity data on representatives for ten alicyclic aldehydes with the α,β-unsaturation in ring/side-chain and precursors from chemical subgroup 2.2 of FGE.19. EFSA Journal 2015;13(7):4173, 28 pp. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2015.4173 Online at: Http://www.efsa.europa.eu/efsajournal.
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NEU149.pdf
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