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Is Melatonin legal in Bulgaria?

Formal status

There is no EU-harmonised limit for melatonin in food supplements - each member state sets its own rule.

No Bulgarian national maximum for melatonin was identified. Bulgaria's food supplements ordinance, notified to and accepted by the European Commission, sets upper levels for vitamins and minerals; other substances such as melatonin are left to the general regime without a published cap. No medicinal reclassification of melatonin at any dose was found.

Bulgarian pharmacies and supplement retailers openly sell melatonin food supplements at 3 mg, 4 mg, 5 mg and 10 mg per daily dose, which is consistent with the absence of a national ceiling.

Do we sell here?

Melatonin is straightforward in Bulgaria. There's no national cap, and pharmacies there routinely sell melatonin supplements at several times our 1 mg dose, so this is the least contested ingredient in the formula for this market.

Outlook

There is no Bulgarian limit to change and nothing suggests one is coming. The most likely source of future movement is EU-level harmonisation of melatonin limits, which several member states have called for.

Ingredients

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