Cellobiose: authorised novel food in the EU
Cellobiose is on the Union list of authorised novel foods (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470). Conditions of use and maximum levels by food category: 8 entries, quoted below.
- Regulation
- Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470, Annex, Table 1
- Listed as
- Cellobiose
- Text version
- Consolidated text of 10 August 2026
- Version
- Consolidated text of 10 August 2026
- Official source
- Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470, Annex, Union list of novel foods
Conditions of use and maximum levels
Table 1, column "Conditions under which the novel food may be used", as written:
- Food supplements as defined in Directive 2002/46/EC for the general population, excluding infants and young children: 3 g/day
- Dried, canned-tinned, raw cured (or seasoned), cooked cured (or seasoned) meat: 2 g/100 g
- Fresh raw, preserved or partly preserved sausages: 2 g/100 g
- Meat based spreadable-textured specialties: 2 g/100 g
- Liver based spreadable-textured specialties: 2 g/100 g
- Savoury sauce dry preparation: 40 g/100 g
- Table-top sweeteners in powder form: 60 g/100 g
- Table-top sweeteners in tablets: 60 g/100 g
Additional specific labelling requirements
1. The designation of the novel food on the labelling of the foodstuffs containing it shall be ‘cellobiose’. 2. The labelling of food supplements containing cellobiose shall bear a statement that those food supplements should not be consumed by infants and young children.
Specification (Table 2)
Table 2 of the Annex, row with the same name, as written:
Description/Definition:
Cellobiose is a disaccharide with two glucose monomers linked by a β-(1-4) glucosidic bond, that is produced from sucrose and glucose in a two-step enzymatic reaction, followed by a series of purification steps.
Characteristics/composition:
Cellobiose DM (%): ≥ 99
Moisture (%): < 1
Other identified sugars (%): ≤ 1
Optical rotation [α]D (c 10, water): +33-36
Ash (g/100 g): < 0,1
Protein content (g/100 g): < 0,01
Heavy metals:
Arsenic: < 0,1 mg/kg
Microbiological criteria:
Total aerobic count (cfu/g): ≤ 1 000
Yeast and moulds (cfu/g): ≤ 100
Salmonella (in 25 g): n.d.
Coliforms (cfu/g): ≤ 10
E. coli (in 10 g): n.d.
cfu: colony forming units
n.d.: not detected
Source and version
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470, Annex, Union list of novel foods, Table 1. Consolidated text of 10 August 2026. The text above is copied from that document without change except that amendment markers are removed. It is not advice and it does not decide whether a particular product is covered.
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