Report of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) on the use conditions for certain substances other than vitamins, minerals and plants in food supplements - 2

In Spain, food supplements are regulated by Royal Decree 1487/2009, which transposes into the Spanish law the Directive 2002/46/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements. However, only the use of vitamins and minerals is currently regulated. Therefore the Scientific Committee of Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN), in its report approved on 28 November 2012, dealt with the conditions that certain substances other than vitamins, minerals and plants should meet to be used in food supplements, and in order to be included in a new annex III of Royal Decree 1487/2009. In view of the observations made to the proposals already assessed by the Committee in its previous report, a new proposal has been elaborated by AESAN. This new proposal includes the increase of certain maximum daily quantities or substances related with those previously assessed. The eight substances or groups of substances proposed by AESAN are: branched-chain amino acids, L-histidine, L-glutamine, ubiquinol, linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid, myo-inositol, quercetin and rutin. The Scientific Committee has assessed each proposal and has stated, in each case, whether the proposal submitted by the AESAN is acceptable for its use as a food supplement, from a safety point of view. In no event is the assessment intended as a guarantee of the efficiency of the substances and the doses assessed.