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Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 1499

The Food Labelling Regulations 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 1499

FOOD

The Food Labelling Regulations 1996

Made9th June 1996
Laid before Parliament10th June 1996
Coming into force1st July 1996


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Title and commencement.
2. Interpretation.
3. Exemptions.
PART II
FOOD TO BE DELIVERED AS SUCH TO THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER OR TO CATERERS
Scope and general labelling requirement
4. Scope of Part II.
5. General labelling requirement.
Name of the food
6. Name prescribed by law.
7. Customary name.
8. Indication of true nature of food.
9. Form of name.
10. Trade marks, brand names and fancy names.
11 Indication of physical condition or treatment.
List of ingredients
12. Heading of list of ingredients.
13. Order of list of ingredients.
14. Names of ingredients.
15. Compound ingredients.
16. Added water.
17. Ingredients which need not be named.
18. Foods which need not bear a list of ingredients.
Ingredients given special emphasis
19. Indication of minimum or maximum percentage of ingredients.
Appropriate durability indication
20. Form of indication of minimum durability.
21. Form of indication of "use by" date.
22. Foods which need not bear an appropriate durability indication.
Omission of certain particulars
23. Food which is not prepacked and similar food, and fancy confectionery products.
24. Indication of additives.
25. Indication of irradiated ingredients.
26. Small packages and certain indelibly marked bottles.
27. Certain food sold at catering establishments.
28. Seasonal selection packs.
Additional labelling requirements for certain categories of food
29. Food sold from vending machines.
30. Prepacked alcoholic drinks other than Community controlled wine.
31. Raw milk.
32. Products consisting of skimmed milk together with non-milk fat.
33. Foods packaged in certain gases.
34. Foods containing sweeteners, added sugar and sweeteners, aspartame or polyols.
Manner of marking or labelling
35. General requirement.
36. Food to which regulation 23 or 27 applies.
37. Milk.
38. Intelligibility.
39. Field of vision.
PART III
CLAIMS, NUTRITION LABELLING AND MISLEADING DESCRIPTIONS
40. Claims.
41. Supplementary provisions relating to claims.
42. Misleading descriptions.
43. The word "wine".
PART IV
OFFENCES AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
44. Offences and penalties.
45. Enforcement.
46. Defence in cases of alteration of appropriate durability indication.
47. Defence in relation to exports.
48. Application of various sections of the Food Safety Act 1990.
PART V
REVOCATIONS, AMENDMENTS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISION
49. Revocations and amendments.
50. Transitional provision.

SCHEDULES

 Schedule 1 Names prescribed by law.

 Schedule 2 Indications of treatment.

 Schedule 3 Generic names in list of ingredients.

 Schedule 4 Categories of additives which must be identified in a list of ingredients by their category name.

 Schedule 5 Positive and negative tolerances permitted in the indication of the alcoholic strength by volume of alcoholic drinks other than Community controlled wine.

 Schedule 6 Claims:
 Part IProhibited Claims.
 Part IIRestricted Claims.

 Schedule 7 Nutrition Labelling:
 Part IPresentation of prescribed nutrition labelling.
 Part IIContents of prescribed nutrition labelling.

 Schedule 8 Misleading Descriptions.

 Schedule 9 Revocations.

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