Food for Special Medical Purposes

What Are Foods for Special Medical Purposes?

Products in the FSMP category are used as a supplement to a regular diet. They are developed in a close collaboration between companies and health professionals. They are also aimed at patients who have been diagnosed with a specific disease, disorder or medical condition that makes it impossible or very difficult for those patients to satisfy their nutritional needs through the consumption of other foods. Foods for Special Medical Purposes should therefore also be used under medical supervision, which may be applied with the assistance of other competent health professionals.

Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/128 of 25 September 2015

3 categories of FSMPs

There are three subcategories under the Food for Special Medical Purposes food category. Products that are nutritionally fully or partially complete fall under the first two categories. They either have a standard composition, or a disease- or function-specific composition, which means that they can constitute the sole or partial source of nourishment for the patients who may need it. The third subcategory is those products which also have either a standard composition, disease- or function-specific composition, but which cannot constitute the sole source of nutrition. REGOROS falls under this third category.