Echinacea purpurea extract from cell cultures: authorised novel food in the EU
Echinacea purpurea extract from cell cultures is on the Union list of authorised novel foods (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470). Conditions of use: quoted below.
- Regulation
- Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470, Annex, Table 1
- Listed as
- Echinacea purpurea extract from cell cultures
- 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: In line with normal use in food supplements of a similar extract from florets within the flower head of Echinacea purpurea
Additional specific labelling requirements
The designation of the novel food on the labelling of the foodstuffs containing it shall be ‘dried extract of Echinacea purpurea from cell cultures EchiPure-PC™’
Specification (Table 2)
Table 2 of the Annex, row with the same name, as written:
Description/Definition:
Dried extract of Echinacea purpurea from cell cultures EchiPure-PC™
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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