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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-494/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/494",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 5 August 2011 authorising the placing on the market of phosphated maize starch as a novel food ingredient under Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2011) 5550) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/494/EU)",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 5 August 2011\nauthorising the placing on the market of phosphated maize starch as a novel food ingredient under Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council\n(notified under document C(2011) 5550)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2011/494/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients, and in particular Article 7 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nOn 23 August 2005 the company National Starch Food Innovation made a request to the competent authorities of the United Kingdom to place phosphated distarch phosphate (phosphated maize starch) on the market as a novel food ingredient.\n(2)\nOn 27 April 2009 the competent food assessment body of the United Kingdom issued its initial assessment report. In that report it came to the conclusion that phosphated distarch phosphate was acceptable as a novel food ingredient.\n(3)\nThe Commission forwarded the initial assessment report to all Member States on 4 May 2009.\n(4)\nWithin the 60-day period laid down in Article 6(4) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 reasoned objections to the marketing of the product were raised in accordance with that provision.\n(5)\nTherefore the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was consulted on 10 February 2010.\n(6)\nOn 10 September 2010, EFSA in the ‘Scientific opinion on the safety of “phosphated distarch phosphate” as a novel food ingredient’ came to the conclusion that phosphated distarch phosphate was safe under the proposed conditions of use and the proposed levels of intake.\n(7)\nOn the basis of the scientific assessment, it is established that phosphated distarch phosphate complies with the criteria laid down in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97.\n(8)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 43, 14.2.1997, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EFSA Journal 2010; 8(9): 1772."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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