Nutrition legislation information sources
Information to help food businesses comply with nutrition legislation.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp information note covers:
- general food labelling on foods and drinks
- food supplements
- fortified foods (foods that have vitamins, minerals or other substances added)
- nutrition and health claims
- food for specific groups:
- infant formula
- follow-on formula
- food for special medical purposes
- processed cereal based baby foods and baby foods
- total diet replacement for weight control
Updates to this page
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Updated section 4.7 (enforcement) to explain changes to amend the Nutrition and Health Claims (England) Regulations 2007. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp changes modify the enforcement regime relating to certain requirements specified in Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on nutrition and health claims made on foods. This will enable improvement notices to be used as a more proportionate first step in enforcing the requirements around the use of nutrition and health claims on food and drinks in England.
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Information has been updated to reflect the appropriate legislation for total diet replacement for weight control foods, infant formula and follow-on formula, and nutrition and health claims on foods. References to EU legislation which is no longer applicable in Great Britain have also been amended and removed where appropriate.
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Updated to reflect the end of the Brexit transition period. Changes include the updating of links, the addition of further information on notification procedures, the addition of a section on substances that can be added to the Union list.
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Updated to reflect the end of the Brexit transition period. Changes include: replacing links to EU legislation with links to UK legislation, changing tenses and updating the names of Community Registers.
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp nutrition information legislation sheet has been updated at section 5 to reflect the new Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/127 on infant and follow-on formula, which came into force on 22 February 2020.
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»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp document has been updated at section 5 to reflect the new regulations that have come into force since 22 February 2019 on food for special medical purposes. This was the Commission Delegated Regulation 2016/128 implemented by the Food for Specific Groups (Information and Compositional Requirements) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019.
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Updated information sheet published: section 2.6 now refers to the conclusions of the EU Commission report on alcohol labelling; section 4.4 updates the EU position regarding prohibited substances; and section 6 updates the information on the Food for Specific Groups Regulation, which replaces the PARNUTS framework.
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Attached updated document: Nutrition Legislation Information Sheet
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First published.