UK Statutory Instrument SI 1996 United Kingdom

Food Labelling Regulations 1996

Enforced by
FSA
Status
Amended (in force with amendments)

What it defines

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

PRELIMINARY

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s.001 Title and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 Exemptions
Part 2

FOOD TO BE DELIVERED AS SUCH TO THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER OR TO CATERERS

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s.004 Scope of Part II
s.005 General labelling requirement
s.006 Name prescribed by law
s.007 Customary name
s.008 Indication of true nature of food
s.009 Form of name
s.010 Trade marks, brand names and fancy names
s.011 Indication of physical condition or treatment
s.012 Heading of list of ingredients
s.013 Order of list of ingredients
s.014 Names of ingredients
s.015 Compound ingredients
s.016 Added water
s.017 Ingredients which need not be named
s.018 Foods which need not bear a list of ingredients
s.019 Indication of minimum or maximum percentage of ingredients
s.020 Form of indication of minimum durability
s.021 Form of indication of “use by” date
s.022 Foods which need not bear an appropriate durability indication
s.023 Food which is not prepacked and similar food, and fancy confectionery products
s.024 Indication of additives
s.025 Indication of irradiated ingredients
s.026 Small packages and certain indelibly marked bottles
s.027 Certain food sold at catering establishments
s.028 Seasonal selection packs
s.029 Food sold from vending machines
s.030 Prepacked alcoholic drinks other than Community controlled wine
s.031 Raw milk
s.032 Products consisting of skimmed milk together with non-milk fat
s.033 Foods packaged in certain gases
s.034 Foods containing sweeteners, added sugar and sweeteners, aspartame or polyols
s.035 General requirement
s.036 Food to which regulation 23 or 27 applies
s.037 Milk
s.038 Intelligibility
s.039 Field of vision
Part 3

CLAIMS, NUTRITION LABELLING AND MISLEADING DESCRIPTIONS

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s.040 Claims
s.041 Supplementary provisions relating to claims
s.042 Misleading descriptions
s.043 The word “wine”
Part 4

OFFENCES AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

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s.044 Offences and penalties
s.045 Enforcement
s.046 Defence in case of alteration of appropriate durability indication
s.047 Defence in relation to exports
s.048 Application of various sections of the Food Safety Act 1990
Part 5

REVOCATIONS, AMENDMENTS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISION

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s.049 Revocations and amendments
s.050 Transitional provision
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch001 Fish
s.sch001 Melons
s.sch001 Potatoes
s.sch001 Vitamins
s.sch002 Tenderised meat
s.sch002 Irradiated food
s.sch004 Notes
s.sch004 Neither the specific name nor the serial number need be...
s.sch007 (a) For [vitamins] and [minerals] there shall be substituted, as...
s.sch007 All amounts given— (a) are to be per hundred grams...
s.sch007 In the calculation of the energy value the following conversion...
s.sch007 Any prescribed nutrition labelling shall be presented together in one...
s.schedule/6/part/i/paragraph/1n2 Note
s.schedule/6/part/i/paragraph/1n3 Note

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