After the Novel Foods Regulation was adopted in 1997 it has been subject to much criticism, especially with regards to exotic novel foods from developing countries. This research evaluates the significance of European food legislation on food-exporting businesses in developing countries, in the case of exotic novel food. Food-exporting businesses from Latin American and African countries were interviewed in addition to experts on the area…

This is just a brief introduction. Click on the tiltle below to access the thesis on the NFR Elisabeth Mari Cumming Smith carried out at Wageningen University

• The European Novel Foods Regulation – The Case of Exotic Novel Foods

For more information on this non tariff trade barrier, you might want to check a  web page dedicated to the Novel Food Regulation that GFU started compiling and we continue looking after.