Food Law News - UK - 2015

DoH Guidance Note, 16 October 2015

LABELLING / COMPOSITION - Nutrition legislation information sources

This document provides information to help food businesses comply with nutrition legislation. It was first published in December 2014 but has been updated and republished by the Department of Health. The document covers:

• general food labelling on food and drinks
• food supplements
• fortified foods (i.e. foods which have extra vitamins or minerals added)
• nutrition and health claims
• foods known as ‘parnuts’ foods (i.e. infant formula, follow-on formula, medical foods, baby foods, slimming foods and gluten-free foods)

A copy of the document is available on this site. See: Nutrition legislation information sources