Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 provides that only novel foods authorised and included in the Union list may be placed on the market within the Union.

Pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/24702 establishing a Union list of authorised novel foods was adopted.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/7603 authorised, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, the placing on the market of Yarrowia lipolytica yeast biomass as a novel food to be used in food supplements as defined in Directive 2002/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council4, excluding food supplements for infants and young children.

On 22 August 2018, the company Skotan S.A. (‘the applicant’) introduced an application to the Commission in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 to place chromium-enriched biomass of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica on the Union market as a novel food. The applicant requested for chromium-enriched biomass of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to be used as a novel food in food supplements, excluding food supplements for infants and young children. The maximum use levels proposed by the applicant are 2 g per day for children from 3 to 9 years of age, and 4 g per day for adolescents and adults.

In accordance with Article 10(3) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, the Commission consulted the European Food Safety Authority (‘Authority’) on 18 February 2019, asking it to provide a scientific opinion by carrying out an assessment for chromium-containing yeast (Yarrowia lipolytica) biomass as a novel food.

On 23 January 2020, the Authority adopted its scientific opinion ‘Safety of chromium-enriched biomass of Yarrowia lipolytica as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283’5. That opinion is in line with the requirements of Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

In its opinion, the Authority concluded that chromium-containing yeast (Yarrowia lipolytica) biomass is safe under the proposed uses and use levels, when used in food supplements intended for the general population above 3 years of age.

The opinion of the Authority gives sufficient grounds to establish that chromium-containing yeast (Yarrowia lipolytica) biomass under the proposed conditions of use complies with Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2283.

Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 should be therefore amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,