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 "url": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/food-supplements",
 "title": "Do Food Supplements Need a Digital Product Passport?",
 "description": "An ordinary food supplement marketed as food is outside ESPR and needs no Digital Product Passport (DPP). Why it counts as food and where medicine law starts.",
 "territory": "dpp",
 "category": "food-supplements",
 "direct_answer": "No generic ESPR Digital Product Passport applies to an **ordinary** food supplement marketed as food. Food is outside the scope of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, and EU food-supplement law treats supplements as foodstuffs. As a scope outcome that is **Not applicable** rather than Not established: the instrument excludes food, so there is nothing here awaiting evidence.",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
 "verified_label": "Last verified",
 "datePublished": "2026-09-03",
 "dateModified": "2026-09-03",
 "legislation": [
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport#legislation-32024r1781",
   "celex": "32024R1781",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, ESPR",
   "legislationDate": "2024-06-13"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/food-supplements#legislation-32001l0083",
   "celex": "32001L0083",
   "name": "Directive 2001/83/EC on medicinal products for human use. EU law, in force as amended. Medicinal product definitions and the rule of doubt for a product falling within both the medicinal definition and another EU category.",
   "legislationDate": "2001-11-06"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/food-supplements#legislation-32006r1924",
   "celex": "32006R1924",
   "name": "Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims. EU law, in force. Controls nutrition and health claims and the substantiation and authorisation framework.",
   "legislationDate": "2006-12-20"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/product-category-scope#legislation-32002r0178",
   "celex": "32002R0178",
   "name": "Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, General Food Law. EU law, in force. Food definition and Article 18 traceability.",
   "legislationDate": "2002-01-28"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/product-category-scope#legislation-32011l0091",
   "celex": "32011L0091",
   "name": "Directive 2011/91/EU on indications or marks identifying the lot to which a foodstuff belongs.",
   "legislationDate": "2011-12-13"
  },
  {
   "@id": "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/digital-product-passport/product-category-scope#legislation-32011r1169",
   "celex": "32011R1169",
   "name": "Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. Especially Article 9 on mandatory particulars and Article 26 on origin/provenance where applicable.",
   "legislationDate": "2011-10-25"
  }
 ],
 "primary_sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02002L0046-20250316",
   "name": "Directive 2002/46/EC on food supplements. EU law, in force as amended. Defines food supplements as foodstuffs marketed in dose form; supplement labelling; the disease-treatment presentation prohibition; optional national notification."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/labelling-and-nutrition/food-supplements_en",
   "name": "Food supplements, Food Safety. European Commission, current official page. Overview of the supplement framework and Member State implementation context."
  },
  {
   "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport/explore-our-faqs_en",
   "name": "Digital Product Passport FAQs. European Commission, current official page. Confirms that DPP obligations depend on applicable legal measures and product requirements rather than on the existence of DPP infrastructure."
  }
 ],
 "glossary_terms": [
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#digital-product-passport",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#espr",
  "https://activatedigital.ai/knowledge/glossary#traceability"
 ],
 "watch": [],
 "decisions": [
  {
   "state": "not required yet",
   "point": "An ESPR passport for an ordinary food supplement",
   "because": "Food is outside the scope of the ESPR, so this is Not applicable rather than Not established."
  }
 ],
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