EFSA's Lower Safe Intake Level For Selenium Stands Despite Supplement Industry’s Objections

 
• By Tom Gallen

The European Food Safety Authority has rejected a request from industry association Food Supplements Europe to apply its new lower intake limit for selenium to only selenomethionine and not other forms authorized for use in supplements.

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The European Food Safety Authority’s new lower Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for selenium will apply to all forms of the mineral when used in dietary supplements despite protests from industry.

Following publication of EFSA’s draft scientific opinion on a new UL for selenium – reducing it from 300 μg/day to 255 μg/day for adults – Food Supplements Europe asked the...

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