Summary

Following a request from the European Commission to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the Scientific Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS) was asked to provide a scientific opinion on the safety of L-selenomethionine as a source of selenium in food supplements and on the bioavailability of selenium from this source. The safety of selenium itself, in terms of the amounts that may be consumed, is outside the remit of this Panel.