In the White Paper on Food Safety , the Commission announced the intention to introduce under the framework Directive 89/398/EEC a specific Directive on foods intended to meet the needs resulting from intense muscular effort.

There is a report of the Scientific Committee on Food on composition and specification of food intended to meet the expenditure of intense muscular effort, especially for sportsmen (Adopted by the SCF on 22 June 2000, corrected on 28 February 2001) and an Opinion on safety aspects of creatine supplementation (Adopted by the Scientific Committee on Food on 7 September 2000).