Outcome of a public consultation on the Draft Scientific Opinion of the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) on Dietary Reference Values for cobalamin (vitamin B12)

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the draft Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values (DRVs) cobalamin (vitamin B12), prepared by the EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA Panel) and endorsed by the Panel for public consultation at its Plenary meeting on 5 February 2015. The written public consultation for this document was open from 10 March 2015 to 21 April 2015. EFSA received comments from three interested parties. EFSA and its NDA Panel wish to thank all stakeholders for their contributions. The current report summarises the outcome of the public consultation, and includes a brief summary of the comments received and how the comments were addressed. The NDA Panel prepared an updated version of the Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for cobalamin (vitamin B12) taking into account the comments received. The Scientific Opinion was discussed and adopted at the NDA Plenary meeting on 11 June 2015, and is published in the EFSA Journal.