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Assessment of the Impact of Scientific Reports Published by EFSA and GIS on Functional Foods Newly Placed on the Market in Poland

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  • Kacper Wróbel

    (Department of Management and Logistics in Healthcare, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland)

  • Anna Justyna Milewska

    (Department of Statistics and Medical Informatics, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland)

  • Michał Marczak

    (Department of Management and Logistics in Healthcare, Medical University of Lodz, 90-131 Lodz, Poland)

  • Remigiusz Kozłowski

    (Centre for Security Technologies in Logistics, Faculty of Management, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland)

Abstract

Dietary supplements are health-promoting products. The legal categorization of dietary supplements as foods does not raise concerns, but a general understanding of how they work in the human body seems to deviate from the official definition. Thus, it is necessary to establish effective methods of market control related to dietary supplements. This research aims at assessing the impact of recommendations by various food safety authorities on ingredients used in newly registered products. It probes how the proportions of utilized product ingredients were modified after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Chief Sanitary Inspector in Poland (GIS) published their recommendations. Research data on the composition of products comes from the Polish national register of dietary supplements and covers the period from 2012 to 28 November 2021. Note that 103,102 products were analysed for the presence of thirty-seven ingredients, and the joinpoint regression method was applied to assess changing trends related to the use of ingredients. As our research points out, most often, changes in the trend appeared in product ingredients for which the European Food Safety Authority and Chief Sanitary Inspector in Poland issued the recommendation of having the safest level of consumption. However, these changes seem to emerge randomly and should not be unquestionably considered as the result of the published recommendations.

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  • Kacper Wróbel & Anna Justyna Milewska & Michał Marczak & Remigiusz Kozłowski, 2022. "Assessment of the Impact of Scientific Reports Published by EFSA and GIS on Functional Foods Newly Placed on the Market in Poland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(7), pages 1-56, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:7:p:4057-:d:782272
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    1. Sharma, L.L. & Teret, S.P. & Brownell, K.D., 2010. "The food industry and self-regulation: Standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 100(2), pages 240-246.
    2. Kacper Wróbel & Anna Justyna Milewska & Michał Marczak & Remigiusz Kozłowski, 2021. "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Composition of Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods Notified in Poland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-26, November.
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    1. Kacper Wróbel & Anna Justyna Milewska & Michał Marczak & Remigiusz Kozłowski, 2022. "Dietary Supplements Questioned in the Polish Notification Procedure upon the Basis of Data from the National Register of Functional Foods and the European System of the RASFF," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-19, July.
    2. Kacper Wróbel & Beata Zastawna & Anna Justyna Milewska & Michał Marczak & Remigiusz Kozłowski, 2023. "Comparison between the American and the European Systems of Monitoring Adverse Effects of Dietary Supplements and Their Usefulness on the Polish Market," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-19, January.

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