European Situation

In Europe, stevia is considered as a novel food since 1997, because not consumed in a significant way before this date; the Professor Geuns, of the university of Louvain in Belgium, European specialist in the subject, deposited to the European Commission a demand informed in November, 1997 so that s...

Date Added: Wednesday 15 November, 2006

Canadian and Australian situation

In Canada, many researches are undertaken on the way of cultivating the stevia and of developing lines of more resistant plants on the one hand, and on the other hand, on the means to develop to extract the steviosides and rebaudiosides from the leaves of stevia to make finished products. The Can...

Date Added: Friday 29 September, 2006

A difficult introduction in the USA

The first imports of stevia in the form of dried leaves and of extract of stevia took place at the beginning of the 80s in the United States. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) knew the existence of this plant for some years because numerous studies had been led on the subject in American labora...

Date Added: Thursday 28 September, 2006

Particular case of Japan

We have already evoked the introduction of stevia in Japan after the second world war in the article on the scientific studies of the XXth century. Japan became in three decades the country the most advanced in the knowledge and the use of stevia and its by-products. One of the very first uses...

Date Added: Wednesday 27 September, 2006