IADSA Newsflash for May 2025

• By: AHPA
• On: 05/22/2025 07:20:40
• In: AHPA News

May 22, 2025

AHPA is an active member of IADSA, an association focused on the globalization of food supplement markets and regulatory challenges. AHPA distributes the IADSA Newsflash This issue covers:

• Indonesia's 2025 regulatory agenda for supplements includes changes to labeling, post-market controls, and new guidelines on stability testing.

• The Philippines has aligned its approach to vitamin and mineral maximum limits with the ASEAN guidelines.

• The European Union has eased import rules for some low-risk composite products, such as some types of gelatin capsules.

• The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is expected to release a scientific opinion on fennel that could lead to the use of fennel being banned in supplement products, due to the presence of estragole and some structurally similar compounds.

• The European Commission Article 8 working group is likely to propose bans on green tea catechins and monacolins from red yeast rice, and will likely place alpha lipoic acid (ALA) under scrutiny.

• The Spanish Agency for Food Safety has recognized the botanicals Silene vulgaris, Sonchus oleraceus, and Scolymus hispanicus as having a history of safe consumption and can be used in food supplements.

• EFSA has released an update to its database Compendium of Botanicals to support hazard identification in areas such as food supplements.

• The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety has flagged cannabidiol (CBD) as a potential reproductive toxicant based on review of animal studies.

• Sweden has deferred to an upcoming EU assessment of ashwagandha safety, in lieu of taking their own actions based on a Danish safety assessment.

• The United Kingdom has moved ahead with a limit of 10 mg/day for CBD products, with cautions for use during pregnancy, etc.

• Ukraine has aligned its food supplement regulations with the EU's regulatory framework.

• Costa Rica has announced a review of synthetic food dyes, following recent regulatory attention to such dyes in the U.S.

• The Dominican Republic has issued its first ever proposed framework for regulation of food supplement products.

• Australia has reaffirmed its prohibition on nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and related compounds in food supplements, although products may be produced for “export only” purposes.