Food Category Details

Foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (13.0)

Description:
Foods for special dietary use are specially processed or formulated to satisfy particular dietary requirements that exist because of a particular physical or physiological condition and/or specific disease and disorder. The composition of these foods must differ significantly from the composition of ordinary foods of comparable nature, if such foods exist.¹ Dietetic foods other than those in 13.0 are included in the categories for their standard counterparts.²

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

One or more subcategories of this category are listed in the Annex to Table 3. Unless specifically indicated below, food additive provisions implied by Table 3 do not automatically apply to this category.

No provisions found for food category 13.0.