Label checks – better safe than sorry

Much of the UK's food industry's focus since the EU's Food Information to Consumers Regulation (EU FIC) was published has rightly been concentrated on revising labels and getting them all changed in readiness for later this year. What has not been so widely discussed is the possible consequence of getting those labels wrong. This is understandable, perhaps, as this was only disclosed fairly recently in the domestic Food Information Regulations (FIR). The FIR contain a largely unknown process in food labelling enforcement of issuing improvement notices where there are reasonable grounds for an enforcement officer to believe that a food business operator (FBO) has failed to comply with the provisions of a piece of labelling law, in this case the EU FIC. There are rights of appeal, but it is an offence if the FBO fails to comply with an improvement notice served on them. Naturally, it is far better not to find yourself in that situation to begin with by getting your labels compliant; our regulatory advisors, who are expert in interpreting the FIC, are on hand to check them.

Contact: Ruth Price
+44(0)1386 842106
ruth.price@campdenbri.co.uk