- Made under
- Food Safety Act 1990
- Enforced by
- FSA, Food Standards Scotland
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 5 of 13 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 2 carry different penalties and 6 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
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Operator — also bound by 746 other Acts
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What it requires
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.
- Label prepacked food for direct sale with ingredients and allergensOperator
Unlimited fine
- Provide allergen information for non-prepacked foodsOperator
- Provide the name of non-prepacked or consumer-packed foodsOperator
- Label prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food with its nameOperator
Unlimited fine
- Label meat-containing non-prepacked food with quantity of meat ingredientsOperator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must enforce food information regulationsLocal authority
- Fail to comply with specified food information requirementsAny Person
- Fail to provide required allergen and food labelling informationAny Person
Unlimited fine
12 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
5 of 92 shown- Follow labelling specifications for the national mark on minced meatAny Person
- Fail to comply with an improvement noticeAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Use correct font size for the national mark on prepacked foodOperator
- Breach labelling rules for foods with added vitamins or mineralsAny Person
- Fail to comply with nutrition information requirementsAny Person
87 other schedules
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Meet food safety requirements for your business
Register, implement HACCP, and comply with food safety law including allergen requirements
Start a food business for the first time
Everything you need to do before opening a food business. Covers registration, premises, HACCP, training, allergens, labelling, and preparing for your first …
Food safety quick compliance check
A quick compliance check for food business operators. Covers registration, HACCP, allergens, temperature control, training, and record keeping.
Improve your food hygiene rating
Practical steps to improve a poor food hygiene rating. Understand what inspectors scored, fix the issues, and request a re-inspection.
Start a hospitality business: licences, food safety, and compliance
End-to-end learning path for opening a hospitality business. Covers premises licences, food business registration, HACCP, fire safety, employer obligations, tipping law, and …
Start a brewery or distillery
Launch a brewery, distillery, winery, or cidery in the UK
Selling food online: labelling and safety requirements
Comply with distance selling rules when selling food online, including providing mandatory food information before purchase, allergen labelling at two points, and …
11 more guides that reference this instrument
Connected legislation
The wider family of instruments made under the same parent Act.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.