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THE Food Information Regulations were published on October 25, 2011 and are a major change to the way that food information is provided to consumers within the EU.
These Regulations replace an old EU Directive initially dating back to the late 1970’s which were then consolidated and updated in the year 2000 to take into account changes such as quantitive ingredient declaration (QUID) and allergen labelling.
That EU Directive was very narrow in scope and because it was a directive it led to many differences in interpretation across the EU in particular in the UK, where the UK Government gold plated the EU Directive into the Food Labelling Regulations and introduced many additional provisions such as ‘selling food past its use by date’ which was detailed as being a specific offense.
The new Food Information Regulations address many of the failings of the previous Food Labelling Directive and have introduced provisions such as legibility where there is now a minimum font size for mandatory pieces of information.
Nutrition information now becomes mandatory, and not just when a nutrition claim is made and allergens have to be declared on non-prepacked foods.
Even though this new food information legislation is a regulation which is directly binding on all 27 member states, each member state needs to implement enforcing provisions within their own national legislation.
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The enforcing regulations will also stipulate powers of inspection and seizure for enforcement officers detailing what can be searched, what documents can be copied or removed or what equipment or other necessary item can be seized e.g. documents, computers, records.
However, the main and probably most important provision of the enforcing regulations are the penalties in the offenses for not complying with the regulations i.e. if you do not comply with the information conAir Jordan
