Difference between revisions of "Dietary supplements"

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== Where should we store them ? ==
 
== Where should we store them ? ==
 
- Medicine is OPF, but it might make sense to keep supplements in OFF (We did move most of the to OPF in the past) as we can use the nutrition facts and ingredients for them, plus specific warnings/support
 
- Medicine is OPF, but it might make sense to keep supplements in OFF (We did move most of the to OPF in the past) as we can use the nutrition facts and ingredients for them, plus specific warnings/support
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== Help categorize them easily ==
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* Help categorize them easily by using Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/questions?country=en%3Aworld&type=category&value_tag=en%3Adietary-supplements
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== Doping banned dietary substances ==
 
== Doping banned dietary substances ==
 
* French list: https://www.afld.fr/webfm/basedopants2015-onlinepourdiffusionpdf
 
* French list: https://www.afld.fr/webfm/basedopants2015-onlinepourdiffusionpdf

Latest revision as of 13:48, 13 August 2024

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/category/dietary-supplements

‘food supplements’ means foodstuffs the purpose of which is to supplement the normal diet and which are concentrated sources of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination, marketed in dose form, namely forms such as capsules, pastilles, tablets, pills and other similar forms, sachets of powder, ampoules of liquids, drop dispensing bottles, and other similar forms of liquids and powders designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities;

(source: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02002L0046-20150402 ) 

Where should we store them ?

- Medicine is OPF, but it might make sense to keep supplements in OFF (We did move most of the to OPF in the past) as we can use the nutrition facts and ingredients for them, plus specific warnings/support

Help categorize them easily


Doping banned dietary substances

To Do

France

  • We are in touch with the government "startup" to provide a dietary supplement database.

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