Dietetic foods: approximation of the laws of the Member States (amend. Directive 89/398/EEC)

This proposal aimed to amend Directive 89/398/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses, with a view to removing from its annex various products for which the directive provided for the subsequent adoption of specific directives. In addition to infant formulae and follow-on formulae, which were already covered by the specific Directive 91/321/EEC, products that no longer had any need to be on the list were removed: - low-sodium foods, including low-sodium or sodium-free dietary salts; - gluten-free foods; - foods intended to meet the expenditure of intense muscular effort (sport); - foods for diabetics; The following foods remained on the list: - cereal-based foods and other baby foods; - foods for weight control diets; - foods for special medical purposes. �