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Nutrition legislation information sources

Information to help food businesses comply with nutrition legislation.

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From:
Department of Health and Social Care
Published:
19 December 2014
Last updated:
20 February 2024
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  1. Updated section 4.7 (enforcement) to explain changes to amend the Nutrition and Health Claims (England) Regulations 2007. The 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.

  2. 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 References to EU legislation which is no longer applicable in Great Britain have also been amended and removed where appropriate.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. The 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.

  6. The 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Attached updated document: Nutrition Legislation Information Sheet

  9. First published.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Nutrition legislation information sheet

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The 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

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