Food Supplements Europe Launches Quality Guides and Self-Assessment Tools

22 Oct 2014 --- With the launch of three new tools to assist its members, Food Supplements Europe strengthens its set of instruments to assists the food supplements sector to apply appropriate levels of safety and quality.

Complementing its Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice for Manufacturers of Food Supplements, published in May this year, a Self-Assessment Questionnaire was developed as a checklist to help manufacturers identify the necessary documentation needed thought the supply chain to ensure that their products are of high quality and safety. “This self-assessment questionnaire is the result of the demand for easy to use documents to help our members apply the multitude of regulatory requirements applicable to food supplements,” said Ingrid Atteryd, Chair of Food Supplements Europe. “We know that especially our Small and Medium Sized members value very much the support from this kind of tools.”

To address the specificities of botanicals, Food Supplements Europe also launches a specific Guide for the Manufacturing of Botanical Preparations, Including Extracts as Food Supplements. Also this guide is accompanied by a specific self-assessment questionnaire.

“Botanicals have very specific requirements for their identification and manufacturing,” Irene Minardi chair of Italian Botanicals Association ASSOERBE and member of Food Supplements Europe says. “That is why we developed a specific guideline for botanicals. The self assessment questionnaire accompanying the Guide will become an essential tool for companies that are committed to show they manufacture safe and high quality products.” With these new documents, Food Supplements Europe continues its series of documents to provide guidance to companies.