Food Supplements

Food supplements are marketed in forms such as capsules, pastilles, tablets, granules and other similar forms. Since they represent a category of foods (foodstuffs), food supplements can be freely sold in all retail stores where food operations are allowed.

Food supplements may contain vitamins, minerals and other substances such as amino acids, fibres, plants and herbal extracts, microorganisms, edible fungi, algae, bee products and other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, or certain other substances prescribed by a special regulation on the addition of substances to foods.

The labelling, advertising and presentation must not attribute to food supplements the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease, or refer to such properties. In addition, the labelling, advertising and presentation shallnot include any mention stating or implying that a balanced and varied diet cannot provide appropriate quantities of nutrients in general.

In the Republic of Croatia, only food supplements included in the monitoring program may be market, and the food business operator responsible for food supplement marketing shall notify each product in the monitoring program of the Ministry of Health in accordance with a special regulation.