The Royal Decree (RD) of 3 March 1992 on food supplements and ordinary foodstuffs enriched with nutrients has been revised and amended.

In this amendment, the list of vitamins, minerals and oligo-elements has been updated, and new maximum levels of these nutrients have been introduced. These are listed in appendix 1 of the RD. Also, the section on mandatory mentions on the packaging has been extended. If particular amounts of certain nutrients are present in the food supplement (e.g. nicotinic acid, or more than 1000 mg of daily potassium), specific warnings have to be added onto the packaging. In addition, percentages of the reference intake of specific vitamins or minerals as determined in the RD, should be mentioned on the packaging as from now.

Amendments included in the new version of the RD have been published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 31 October 2017 and can be found here.

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