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Labelling – Does food labelling comply with the Food Standards Code?

Guidance		Various standards of the Code outline labelling requirements for foods and beverages. For example: Standard 2.2.2 cl 3 requires E.g.gs for retail sale or catering purposes to be individually marked with the producers’ or processors’ unique identification to ensure traceability. Standard 2.7.1 provides labelling requirements for alcoholic beverages and food containing alcohol. Part 1.2 of the Food Standards Code sets out the labelling requirements for food identification, labelling of ingredients, directions of use, nutritional claims, nutritional information, legibility and country of origin requirements. Standard 1.2.3.sets out mandatory advisory and warning statements and declarations which must be made in relation to certain foods or foods containing certain substances (e.g. ‘This food contains peanuts and peanut products’). It is the food business’ responsibility to understand and comply with all labelling requirements in the Code.
Non-compliance	Minor	N/A
	Major	Food is sold without required labelling. E.g. eggs sold without individually identification, unpackaged food sold without country of origin information displayed. Food labelling contains inadequate information. E.g. missing nutritional information or used-by/best before dates. Food label does not have mandatory warning statements. E.g. undeclared allergens or Royal Jelly.
	Critical	N/A