Open consultation

Consultation Pack on Market Authorisation of One Traditional Food Notification

Published 6 August 2026

This consultation seeks stakeholders’ views, comments and feedback in relation to the regulated product notification considered in this document.

Launch date

6 August 2026. 

Respond by

2 September 2026. 

This consultation will be of most interest to

All England, Wales, and Northern Ireland food and feed businesses, local and port health authorities, district councils, and other stakeholders with an interest in food and feed safety. A separate parallel consultation is being published by Food Standards Scotland (FSS).

This page is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

Purpose of the consultation

This consultation seeks stakeholders’ views, comments and feedback in relation to the regulated product notification considered in this document, which has been submitted under Article 14 of assimilated Regulation 2015/2283 (“the Novel Food Regulations”) Notification of a traditional food from a third country. 

• New authorisation of dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.)

How to respond

Responses to this consultation should be submitted via the online survey (Consultation on Market Authorisation of One Traditional Food Notification.

If this is not possible, you can email a response to: 

RPconsultations@food.gov.uk 

Full details on how to respond are given below.

Definitions

The Regulated Product notification in this consultation is a traditional food from a third country. The following information and definitions may be of use when responding to this consultation. 

Regulated Products 

Certain food and feed products, called regulated products, must go through a risk analysis process, and require authorisation before they can be sold in the UK. You can find out more about the application process, including the risk analysis and risk management processes, and Ministerial involvement here: Background on placing a regulated product on the market. 

Novel foods 

Novel foods are foods that were not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the UK or EU before 15 May 1997. In order to place new novel foods on the GB market or to change the specifications or conditions of use of authorised novel foods, applicants must submit an application in accordance with assimilated Regulation 2015/2283. Background on Novel foods authorisation guidance.   

Traditional food notification (‘Article 14’) 

This is a simplified route to authorise products which have been consumed outside of the UK or EU for at least 25 continuous years before the notification is made. Applicants are required to provide documented data demonstrating the history of safe food use in a third country. There is a four-month period within which a safety review is conducted by Food Standards Agency (FSA). If the FSA has no safety objections, the product is authorised and placed on the authorised list. 

Assimilated Regulations 

Directly applicable EU legislation no longer applies in Great Britain (GB). Any EU legislation that was retained when the UK exited the EU was assimilated on 31 December 2023. Assimilated law is published on legislation.gov.uk.  

The Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene Provisional Common Framework is a non-statutory arrangement between the UK Government and Devolved Administrations to establish common approaches to policy areas where powers have returned from the EU within areas of devolved competence. This consultation has been developed under the commitments to collaborative four-nation working set out in this Framework. As such, this consultation has been developed through a four-nation approach. Final recommendations will be agreed on a four-nation basis before being presented to Ministers in England, Scotland and Wales, with the Northern Ireland Health Minister kept informed. Northern Ireland continues to fully participate in the risk analysis processes concerning food and feed safety. This reflects Northern Ireland’s integral role within the UK and ensures that any decision made fully considers the potential impacts on the whole of the UK. 

Risk Management

The FSA risk management recommendations document present the factors that they have identified as relevant to this notification, including the potential impact of any decision made by ministers, and contain proposed terms of authorisation and other relevant provisions.

Details of consultation

Introduction

This consultation seeks views on the regulated product notification for dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) 

An overview of the details for this notification can be found later in this document. For full and further information, please refer to the risk management recommendation document attached to this consultation.

The FSA is seeking views from stakeholders on the proposed terms of authorisation and any labelling requirements. Stakeholders are invited to use this opportunity to comment or highlight any additional factors that should be brought to the attention of ministers before the notification is authorised. 

Following the consultation, the next step is for the FSA to write to ministers in England and Wales regarding the terms of authorisation and labelling of this product, before placing on the market. In Scotland, FSS will write to their minister following the consultation, regarding the terms of authorisation and labelling of this product, before placing on the market. Ministers in Northern Ireland will be kept informed.  

This is in line with FSA and FSS responsibility to provide advice, information or assistance to ministers in respect of matters connected with food safety or other interests of consumers in relation to food (section 6, Food Standards Act 1999 and section 3, Food (Scotland) Act 2015). Once the relevant ministers are notified of the authorisation, they will take into account the risk management recommendations and any relevant provisions of assimilated law raised during the consultation process.

Impacts

As part of the assessment conducted to determine whether to raise a duly reasoned safety assessment in line with Article 15, the FSA assessed the safety of this traditional food and the potential impacts arising from its authorisation. No significant safety concerns were identified. 

Individual detailed impacts, including trade, Northern Ireland, and others, for the notification is listed in the corresponding Risk Management document. The authorisation of this product should generally result in greater market competition, supporting growth and innovation in the sector.

Engagement and consultation process

Details of all valid applications for regulated products are published monthly on the Register of Regulated Product Applications and available on the FSA website.  

Stakeholders are invited to consider the questions posed below in relation to any relevant provisions of assimilated law and other legitimate factors.  

Following the consultation process, responses will be made available on the website and shared with ministers.

Questions

Questions asked in this consultation: 

• Do you have any comments or concerns on the proposed terms on which dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) is authorised as outlined in the FSA risk management recommendation? 

• Are there any other considerations regarding the proposed terms of authorisation that should be taken into account by ministers that have not already been highlighted? 

• Do you have any other feedback?

Responses

Responses are required by 23:59pm 2 September 2026. Please state, in your response, whether you are responding as a private individual or on behalf of an organisation/company (including details of any stakeholders your organisation represents).

Please respond to the consultation via the online survey (Consultation on Market Authorisation of One Traditional Food Notification. If this is not possible, you can email a response to RPconsultations@food.gov.uk  

Please indicate the application/product you are responding about by using the following subject line for your response: Response to RP2323 consultation on traditional food notification. 

If responding by email, please state in your response whether you are responding as a private individual or on behalf of an organisation/company (including details of any stakeholders your organisation represents) and in which nation you are based.

We aim to publish a summary of responses to this consultation around 3 months of the consultation closing. For information on how the FSA handles your personal data, please refer to the Consultation privacy notice.  

Responses will be shared with ministers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Further information

If you require a more accessible format of this document, email RPconsultations@food.gov.uk and your request will be considered.

This consultation has been prepared in accordance with the HM Government Consultation Principles.

Thank you on behalf of the FSA for participating in this public consultation.

RP2323, dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) (new) (Traditional Food)

Background

A notification for the traditional food, dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) was submitted to the FSA for authorisation in Great Britain (GB) in June 2025 by Kawanasi Sehat Dasacatur, PT. 

For a traditional food from a third country to be placed on the market in GB, a notification shall be submitted in accordance with assimilated Regulation  2015/2283 (“the Novel Food Regulations”).   

Under Article 14 of the Regulation traditional foods which have a history of safe use in a third country, as defined by Article 3.2(b) of the Novel Food Regulations, can be authorised by ministers. These authorised traditional foods will have been safely consumed outside of the United Kingdom and the European Union for at least 25 continuous years before the notification is made.

Trade

Food exported from the UK to other countries/blocs will need to continue to meet the rules of those countries/blocs.

European Union (EU) 

Dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) is already approved for use in the EU.

Northern Ireland 

This product is already authorised for use in Northern Ireland. The authorisation of this product in GB would create alignment with Northern Ireland.

FSA Risk Management Recommendation 

The FSA risk management recommendation concludes dried kenari nuts (Canarium indicum L.) as described in this notification, is safe and is not liable to have an adverse effect on the target population, environmental safety and human health with the proposed uses.