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FAO promotes Food Labelling as an effective tool to protect consumer health in terms of food safety and nutrition. Food labels convey information about the product’s identity and contents, and on how to handle, prepare and consume it safely. With the increase in global trade and a shift away from the traditional face-to-face food producer and ...
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The Codex Alimentarius standards and guidelines on food labelling are published in this compact format to allow their wide use and understanding by governments, regulatory authorities, food industries and retailers, and consumers.This fifth edition includes texts adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission up to 2007.
- What Is Food Labelling?
- Why Is Food Labeling Important?
- Food Labelling Requirements
- Designing Your Food Labels
- Reviewing and Approving Artwork
- Ingredient and Allergen Information
- Nutritional Data
- Health and Product Claims
- Country of Origin
- Finished Product Weights and Measures
The FAOdescribes food labeling as “any written, printed or graphic matter that is present on the label, accompanies the food, or is displayed near the food, including that for the purpose of promoting its sale or disposal.” It serves to communicate information about the food to the consumer or user.
Food labelling plays an important role in educating consumers and users about what is in the food product, how to handle and store it, where is has come from and when it will become unsafe or unsuitable to consume.
As a food manufacturer you are legally required to label any food product that you produce. The level or extent of mandatory information will depend on your location and governing food laws. It will also relate to if your product is packaged and if you are selling directly to the consumer. Failing to adhere to relevant regulations can result in ser...
In addition to the mandatory information that is required to be included on or with your product you also need to consider your design. Design must incorporate legibility, adequate font sizes and contrasting print and backing colours. The goal is for consumers and end users to be able to effectively read any information provided. The readability of...
It is essential that you never order printed food labels or food packaging without first checking each section of the artwork. This includes making sure that ingredient lists, marketing claims, allergen declarations, nutritional panels, country of origin and warning statements are true and correct. I have spoken before about those crazy marketing p...
Fundamental to the food labelling process is declaring what ingredients are in your products. Based on your governing food laws you may also need to label characterising ingredients, food additives, and if the ingredients have been derived from genetically modified materials. Declaring allergens is important as some food ingredients, and food compo...
Many consumers use the nutritional data that you include on your food labelling to manage health issues. This can include health states like high cholesterol, obesity and high blood pressure. Anyone needing to lose weight may use the overall energy (calories or kilojoules) to help understand what they are putting into their bodies. This may also be...
It seems that I cannot pick up any type of food product these days with seeing a myriad of health and other claims made about the product. Common claims include gluten free, organic, paleo, high protein, farm fresh, low fat, no sugar and halal, to name a few. If your food labeling contains any type of claim, make sure you can verify the claim. You ...
Keeping with the roll of product claims you may also be legally required to indicate the “Country of Origin” as part of your food labelling. If you choose to make a country of origin claim, or are legally required to do so, it must be clear, accurate and truthful.
Although not a food safety issue, finished product weights can be considered a fraud or misleading consumer issue. The majority of countries will have some type of weights and measures requirements. If your food labelling states that the product weighs say 500g, you need to make sure that this is the case. Regular weight checks during the manufactu...
As the Codex Committee on Food Labelling gathers for its 46th session, we spoke with Christine Kopko, FAO Food Safety Officer, about the assurance that labels bring to consumers and the importance of international approaches to indicating what is in our food products. Why should consumers read food labels?
One is the food label of which the nutrition label is a part. Food labels are becoming loaded with more and more information – food products are positioned by manufacturers on factors like being healthy, traditional, sustainable, local, natural, etc., all of which need to be communicated, and the nutrition label is accompanied by eco-labels, labels on protected origin, and a wealth of other information.
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The five principles to adhere to in preparing a label are clarity, completeness, comprehensiveness, conformity and consistency. Clarity is achieved by avoiding complex or excessively technical explanations and by using a clear layout with a prominent display of key words, phrases, symbols, and pictograms.
