Labelling and nutrition
Food law establishes the rights of consumers to safe food and to accurate and honest information.
In the European Union, the labelling rules enable the citizens to get comprehensive information about the content and composition of food products. Labelling helps consumers to make an informed choice while purchasing their foodstuffs.
Within this section the Commission has identified various topics of interest as well as details of legislation and regulations.
Related links
- 20 May 2020: Report on front-of-pack nutrition labelling
- 20 May 2020: Commission Staff Working Document - Executive Summary of the evaluation of the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation
- 28 February 2018: Technical expert seminar on the preparation of the UK withdrawal in the SPS area - Food and Water
Further information
The Food Labelling Information System provides a user friendly IT solution which enables its users to select the food and automatically retrieve the.
- EU register of health claims
- Evaluation of the Regulation on nutrition and health claims
- Health claims
- Nutrition claims
A wide range of nutrients and other ingredients are used in food manufacturing in order to "enrich" or "fortify" the food in question, so as to add or.
- Alcohol labelling
- Background information on the adoption of the Regulation
- Distance Selling
- Expert Group
- Fair Information Practices
- Guidance documents
- Language and presentation of food information
- Mandatory food information
- Nutrition labelling
- Origin labelling
- Proposal for a revision of the Regulation on Food Information to Consumers (FIC)
- Voluntary food information
There are different categories of waters intended for human consumption such as natural mineral waters and spring waters.
- Addition of substances for specific nutritional purposes
- Expert Group & national competent authorities
- Food for diabetics
- Food for infants and young children
- Food for special medical purposes
- Food for weight reduction
- Gluten-free food
Food law establishes the rights of consumers to safe food and to accurate and honest information.In the European Union, the food labelling rules.
