Codex
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Movement among member countries toward the U.S. proposal that upper safe limits for vitamins and minerals be based on scientific risk assessment rather than a multiple of an RDI is supported by CRN and NNFA following the 22nd Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses in June. Although the Proposed Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements remains at the third stage of the eight-step process, several key issues, such as upper limits, have shifted in favor of the trade groups' positions. However, the committee remains in favor of creating a positive list of allowable nutrient ingredients, which the trade groups and the U.S. have opposed. CFSAN Lead Nutritional Scientist Elizabeth Yetley, PhD, chaired the U.S. delegation