Food Supplements Belgium (FAVV)

Do you want to offer food supplements for the Belgian market via bol? Then your organization must be registered with the FASFC (Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain) with a distribution authorization.

Guidelines in Belgium

All organizations active in the food chain in Belgium and having a warehouse in Belgium must be known to and registered with the FASFC. This includes offering notified food supplements.

Notified food supplements

Partners who wish to sell food supplements in Belgium may only sell notified food supplements. These are food supplements that must be officially registered with the Belgian government before they can be placed on the market. If you wish to offer food items that are not yet known to us as notified, you can send a list of these EANs, including notification numbers, to gezondheid@bol.com. We will check this list and approve it if the notifications are in order. It may take up to 2 weeks for your application to be processed, as this verification process involves a lot of manual work.

FASFC registration

You can register your organization with the FASFC via this link.

Offering food supplements in Belgium with a warehouse in the Netherlands

If you are a Dutch company with only a warehouse in the Netherlands and you wish to offer food supplements in Belgium from there, you do not need an FASFC registration. You can apply for selling rights for food supplements in Belgium without providing an FASFC registration, by demonstrating that your company is located in the Netherlands. You may only sell notified food supplements in Belgium.

How will your application to bol be assessed?

To offer notified food supplements to Belgian customers, you must therefore be able to demonstrate that you are officially registered with the FASFC or that your company is located in the Netherlands. For this, we need your FASFC registration number or business address.