Packaged food and beverages

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• Food information must not be misleading

  “Food information shall not be misleading, particularly: a as to the characteristics of the food and, in particular, as to its nature, …”

• Food information shall be accurate, clear and easy to understand for the consumer.

  “Food information shall be accurate, clear and easy to understand for the consumer.”

• Food information shall not attribute to any food the property of preventing, treating …

  “food information shall not attribute to any food the property of preventing, treating or curing a human disease …”

• Operators within their control

  “shall not modify the information accompanying a food if such modification would mislead the final consumer …”

• Operators within their control

  “shall ensure compliance with the requirements of food information law …”

• Disclose: food supplied to other operators or mass caterers

  “shall ensure that those other food business operators are provided with sufficient information to enable them, where appropriate, to meet their obligations under paragraph 2 …”

• All foods

  “Mandatory food information shall be available and shall be easily accessible, in accordance with this Regulation, for all foods …”

• Label: mandatory food information

  “mandatory food information shall appear in English …”

• Label: quantity of certain ingredients or categories of ingredients …

  Only if Sold prepacked: Yes and Reusable indelibly marked glass bottle without label: No, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “the quantity of certain ingredients or categories of ingredients …”

• Label: nutrition declaration

  Only if Sold prepacked: Yes and Product of an Annex V exemption: No

  “a nutrition declaration …”

• Label: quantitative ingredient declaration

  Only if Sold prepacked: Yes and Reusable indelibly marked glass bottle without label: No, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “The indication of the quantity of an ingredient or category of ingredients used in the manufacture or preparation of a food shall be required where the ingredient …”

• Label: nutrition declaration

  Only if Sold prepacked: Yes and Product of an Annex V exemption: No

  “The mandatory nutrition declaration shall include the following …”

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• Carbon dioxide

  “E 290; Carbon dioxide; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Keep phosphoric acid, phosphates, di-, tri- and polyphosphates (E 338–341, E 343 and E 450–452) (Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) definition) within 10000 mg/kg

  “E 338-452; Phosphoric acid — phosphates — di-, tri- and polyphosphates; 10 000; (1) (4) (57); only foods in dried powdered form (i.e. foods dried during the production process, and mixtures thereof), excluding foods listed in Table 1 of Part A of this Annex …”

• Beta-cyclodextrin

  “E 459; Beta-cyclodextrin; quantum satis; only foods in tablet and coated tablet form, excluding the foods listed in Table 1 of Part A of this Annex …”

• Silicon dioxide – silicates (E 551–553) (Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) definition)

  “E 551-553; Silicon dioxide – silicates; quantum satis; (1); only foods in tablet and coated tablet form, excluding the foods listed in Table 1 of Part A of this Annex …”

• Keep silicon dioxide – silicates (E 551–553) (Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) definition) within 10000 mg/kg

  “E 551-553; Silicon dioxide – silicates; 10 000; (1) (57); only foods in dried powdered form (i.e. foods dried during the production process, and mixtures thereof), excluding foods listed in Table 1 of Part A of this Annex …”

• Argon

  “E 938; Argon; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Helium

  “E 939; Helium; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Nitrogen

  “E 941; Nitrogen; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Nitrous oxide

  “E 942; Nitrous oxide; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Oxygen

  “E 948; Oxygen; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Hydrogen

  “E 949; Hydrogen; quantum satis; may be used in foods for infants and young children …”

• Food additives used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and nutrients

  “Only food additives authorised for secondary use may be used in food additives, food enzymes, food flavourings and in nutrients under the conditions of use specified in the authorisation concerned …”

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• Food placed on the market

  “Food shall not be placed on the market if it is unsafe …”

• Labelling, advertising and presentation of food

  “shall not mislead consumers …”

• Food at all stages

  “shall be established at all stages of production, processing and distribution …”

• Label: food placed on the market

  “shall be adequately labelled or identified to facilitate its traceability …”

• Food supplied

  “shall collaborate with the competent authorities on action taken to avoid or reduce risks posed by a food which they supply or have supplied …”

• Food and feed imported into Great Britain for placing on the market within Great …

  Only if Imported into the market of sale: Yes

  “Food and feed imported into Great Britain for placing on the market within Great Britain must comply with the relevant requirements of food law …”

• Food business operators at all stages

  Only if Operates a food facility or food business: Yes

  “shall ensure that foods or feeds satisfy the requirements of food law which are relevant to their activities and shall verify that such requirements are met …”

• Disclose: supplier identification

  Only if Operates a food facility or food business: Yes

  “Food and feed business operators shall be able to identify any person from whom they have been supplied with a food …”

• Disclose: customer identification

  Only if Operates a food facility or food business: Yes

  “shall have in place systems and procedures to identify the other businesses to which their products have been supplied …”

• Notify Competent authorities: food that is not in compliance with food safety requirements

  Only if Operates a food facility or food business: Yes

  “shall immediately initiate procedures to withdraw the food in question from the market where the food has left the immediate control of that initial food business operator and inform the competent authorities …”

• Notify Competent authorities: food that may be injurious to human health

  Only if Operates a food facility or food business: Yes

  “shall immediately inform the competent authorities if it considers or has reason to believe that a food which it has placed on the market may be injurious to human health …”

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• Label: food prepacked for direct sale: name of the food

  “must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(a) (the name of the food), as read with— a Article 17(1) and (4), b Part A of Annex 6, and c in the case of a food offered for sale using a minced meat designation as a name— i Article 17(5), ii point 1 of Part B of Annex 6, and iii point 3 of Part B of Annex 6, as read with regulation 4 and Schedule …”

• Disclose: food containing meat and another ingredient, not prepacked, packed at the consumer's request or prepacked for direct sale

  “must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(d) (quantity of certain ingredients), as read with Article 22 and Annex VIII, in respect of the ingredients in the food that are meat …”

• Label: may make available the particulars specified in Article 9(1)(c)

  Only if Sold prepacked: No and Prepacked for direct sale: not Yes, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “may make available the particulars specified in Article 9(1)(c)”

• Label: non-prepacked food, allergens present, particulars given orally

  Only if Sold prepacked: No and Prepacked for direct sale: not Yes, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “the operator must indicate that details of that substance or product can be obtained by asking a member of staff …”

• Disclose: non-prepacked food, allergens present, particulars given otherwise than as FIC provides

  Only if Sold prepacked: No (see the quote)

  “must be made available with a clear reference to the name of the substance or product listed in Annex II …”

• Label: food prepacked for direct sale: list of ingredients

  Only if Prepacked for direct sale: Yes and Offered for sale by means of distance communication (online, telephone, mail order): No and List of ingredients is present: Yes

  “must provide directly on the package or on a label attached to the package the particulars required by— a Article 9(1)(b) (list of ingredients), as read with— i Article 13(1) to (3), as read with any regulations made under Article 13(4), ii Article 15, iii Article 16(2), so far as it relates to the particulars required by Article 9(1)(b), iv Article 17, as read with Parts A and C of Annex 6 and, in the case of an ingredient using a minced meat designation as a name, the following points of Part B of Annex 6— aa point 1, and bb point 3, as read with regulation 4 and Schedule 2, v Article 18, as read with Annex 7 and paragraph (1)(a)(iv) of this regulation, vi Article 19(1), as read with any regulations made under Article 19(2), and vii Article 20; …”

• Label: food prepacked for direct sale, allergens present

  Only if Prepacked for direct sale: Yes, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “Article 9(1)(c) (labelling of certain substances or products causing allergies or intolerances), as read with Article 21(1) and Annex 2 …”

• Label: a food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies …

  Only if Sold prepacked: No and Prepacked for direct sale: not Yes

  “A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(a) (the name …”

• Disclose: non-prepacked food: name of the food

  Only if Sold prepacked: No

  “must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(a) (the name of the food) as read with— a Article 17(1) to (4), and b in the case of food offered for sale using a minced meat designation as a name— i Article 17(5) and point 1 of Part B of Annex VI, and ii point 3 of Part B of Annex VI as read with regulation 4 and Schedule …”

• Label: a food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies …

  Only if Prepacked for direct sale: Yes

  “A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(a) (the name …”

• Label: a food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies …

  Only if Contains meat as an ingredient: Yes and Food listed in Schedule 3 of SI 2014/1855 (meat products): No, plus one of 2 further conditions the law names (see the quote)

  “A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide the particulars required by Article 9(1)(d) (quantity of certain ingredients), as read with Article 22 and Annex VIII, in respect of the ingredients in the food that are meat.”

• Label: irradiated product placed on the market in bulk

  Only if Treated with ionising radiation: Yes

  “must ensure that the relevant indication appears, together with the name of the product, on a display or notice above or beside the container …”

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• Keep nitrates within 3500 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Fresh spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

  “1.1; Fresh spinach (Spinacia oleracea); 3 500 …”

• Keep nitrates within 2000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Preserved, deep-frozen or frozen spinach

  “1.2; Preserved, deep-frozen or frozen spinach; 2 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 4000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Fresh Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) (protected and open-grown lettuce) excluding lettuce listed in point 1.4

  “lettuce grown in the open air; 4 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 3000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Fresh Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) (protected and open-grown lettuce) excluding lettuce listed in point 1.4

  “lettuce grown in the open air; 3 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 5000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Fresh Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) (protected and open-grown lettuce) excluding lettuce listed in point 1.4

  “lettuce grown under cover; 5 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 4000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Fresh Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) (protected and open-grown lettuce) excluding lettuce listed in point 1.4

  “lettuce grown under cover; 4 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 2000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: ‘ Iceberg ’ type lettuce

  “Lettuce grown in the open air; 2 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 6000 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Rucola (Eruca sativa, Diplotaxis sp., Brassica tenuifolia, Sisymbrium tenuifolium)

  “Harvested 1 April to 30 September:; 6 000 …”

• Keep nitrates within 200 mg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children

  “1.6; Processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children; 200 …”

• Keep aflatoxin B1 within 8 µg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment,… (see the quote)

  Point

  2.1.1.

  Foodstuffs

  Groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs, with the exception of: groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds for crushing for refined vegetable oil production

  Aflatoxins: B1 (µg/kg)

  8,0

  Aflatoxins: sum of B1, B2, G1 and G2 (µg/kg)

  15,0

  Aflatoxins: M1 (µg/kg)

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• Keep aflatoxins within 15 µg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment,… (see the quote)

  Point

  2.1.1.

  Foodstuffs

  Groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs, with the exception of: groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds for crushing for refined vegetable oil production

  Aflatoxins: B1 (µg/kg)

  8,0

  Aflatoxins: sum of B1, B2, G1 and G2 (µg/kg)

  15,0

  Aflatoxins: M1 (µg/kg)

  —

  Annex rows, point 2.1.1: Groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds, to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs, with the exception of: groundnuts (peanuts) and other oilseeds for crushing for refined vegetable oil production — Aflatoxins · In force since 1 Mar 2007 · fetched 2026-10-17

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• Keep aflatoxin B1 within 12 µg/kg

  Only if Food category points of the contaminant maximum-level tables: Almonds, pistachios and apricot kernels to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before… (see the quote)

  Point

  2.1.2.

  Foodstuffs

  Almonds, pistachios and apricot kernels to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs

  Aflatoxins: B1 (µg/kg)

  12,0

  Aflatoxins: sum of B1, B2, G1 and G2 (µg/kg)

  15,0

  Aflatoxins: M1 (µg/kg)

  —

  Annex rows, point 2.1.2: Almonds, pistachios and apricot kernels to be subjected to sorting, or other physical treatment, before human consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs — Aflatoxins · In force since 1 Mar 2007 · fetched 2026-10-17

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