All nutritional supplements report the complete list of ingredients on the label and an indication of all allergens, in accordance and in full compliance with the legislative provision (Legislative Decree 114/06). To provide additional consumer protection, most of the references are also subjected to specific tests at the end of every production batch to confirm the absence of gluten and avoid any possibility of random contamination. A further guarantee of safety. The tested products and found gluten-free are characterised by an adhesive or by the term “gluten-free”.
Normative Ref.:
The Official Journal of the European Union no. L16 published Commission Regulation (EC) no. 41/2009 of 20/01/2009 concerning the composition and labelling of food products suitable for people intolerant to gluten.
This regulation applies to foodstuffs and therefore also to supplements and to products intended for particular nutritional uses. For integrators that can ensure gluten content not greater than 20 ppm, one can recommend the claim “gluten-free”.
For foodstuffs that use deglutened ingredients and do not exceed a maximum level of 100 ppm of gluten, one can recommend the claim “with very low gluten”.
These claims must be affixed immediately after the product sales description. Clearly, for the application of this regulation, what is dictated by Directive 2000/13/EC should be borne in mind that specifies “labelling and advertising should not mislead the consumer by suggesting that the product has special characteristics when in fact all similar foodstuffs possess the same identical characteristics”.
Farmaderbe performs specific tests for the determination of gluten on individual production batches even when none of the ingredients is considered as bearer of gluten, to minimise the risk of random contamination and ensure maximum protection to consumers.
The list of products tested, constantly updated, is available by clicking below: file update in progress.