Hanoi, Feb. 24 -- Businesses have been advised to develop comprehensive strategies for the European Union (EU) market to ensure consistent compliance with the market's evolving food safety standards, particularly those concerning novel foods and composite products.

Speaking at an online conference on February 24, Ngo Xuan Nam, Deputy Director of the Vietnam SPS Office, said that under EU Regulation 2015/2283, novel food is defined as food that had not been consumed to a significant degree by humans in the EU before May 15, 1997. The regulation requires new products to undergo a thorough safety assessment before being introduced to the market.

Meanwhile, composite products are foodstuffs containing both products of plant origin and proce...