Such foodstuffs are not voluntarily fortified products but dietetic products or products whose fortification is mandatory, for example iodised cooking salt in Austria and Germany.

Reference to Directive 2004/5/EC of 20 January 2004 which authorised the use of calcium sulphate in dietetic foods.

There are many products available through health food stores which have been categorised as foods or food supplements and not medicines, even though they may have therapeutic qualities.

The registration procedure provided for by Directive 2001/83 is not suitable for unregulated products with a medical claim (e.g. dietary products).

Certainly the infiltration of GMOs into the European diet (ironically most hidden and most pervasive in soya - based health foods) has concentrated minds forcibly.

3. Proof of professional competence to be a technical manager of an undertaking manufacturing special foods for babies and children, or dietetic foods, may in Italy be furnished by the person concerned in the form of a diploma issued in another Member State corresponding, as regards the level attained and occupational training received, to the diploma required under Italian law, thereby permitting the person concerned to be enrolled, only in respect of the activity concerned, on a special professional register The person concerned shall at the same time furnish proof that he has pursued an activity in the field in question, in an indepen ...[+++]dent capacity, or as a person responsible for managing an undertaking, or as technical manager, over a period of at least three consecutive years in another Member State.