Policy - Food Regulations 1985

Date:
1985
Published by:
Government
Published year:
1985
Is the policy document adopted?:
Yes
Adopted year:
1985
Adopted by:
P.U.(A) 437/85
Type of policy:
Legislation relevant to nutrition

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11. Particulars in labelling

 (1) Every package containing food for sale shall, unless otherwise provided in these Regulations, bear on it a label containing the following particulars, namely—

(a) the appropriate designation of the food or a description of the food containing the common name of its principal ingredients;

(e) where the food consists of two or more ingredients, other than water, food additives and nutrient supplement, the appropriate designation of each of those ingredients in descending order of proportion by weight and, wherever required by these Regulations, a declaration of the proportion of such ingredient,

(f) where the food contains edible fat or edible oil or both, a statement as to the presence in that food of such edible fat or edible oil or both, together with the common name of the animal or vegetable, as the case may be, from which such fat or oil is derived;

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185 Margerine
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(2) Margarine -
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(b) shall not contain more than:
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(ii) 4 per cent of salt;
(3) Margarine described as table margarine shall contain-
(a) in each 100 grams, not less than 2,500 and not more than 3,500 International Units of Vitamins A, calculated as the sum of the Vitamin A present as such or as its esters and includes betacarotene on the basis that 0.75 /kg of betacorotene shall be regarded as equivalent to 1 International Unit of Vitamin A;
(b) in each 100 grams, shall contain not less than 250 International Units and not more than 350 International Units of Vitamin D. 
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259 Peanut butter.
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(2) Peanut butter-
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(c) may contain-
(i) sugar or glucose or both;
(ii) not more than-
(aa) 2 per cent of salt;
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285 Iodised table salt or iodised salt

(1) Iodised table salt or iodised salt shall be table salt to which has been added potassium iodide or sodium iodide. It shall comply with the standard for table salt prescribed in regulation 284 and shall contain not less than 25 mg/kg and not more than 40 mg/kg of iodide calculated as potassium iodide.

389 Infant formula

(7) There shall be written in a prominent position in the label of a package containing infant formula, in not less than 10 point lettering, the words ""BREAST MILK IS THE BEST FOOD FOR INFANTS"".

(8) No label of an infant formula shall display any picture of infants or babies or parts of infants or babies except that for the purposes of identification and positioning of the product, the label may have graphic.

(9) No label of an infant formula shall display any claim of superiority of the product to breast milk.

(14) There shall be written in the label of every package containing infant formula-

(a) the method of preparing the food which shall include a statement of the quantity or the amount of food directed to be used in the preparation to be given to the infant;

(b) a statement suggesting the amount of the prepared food to be given at one time, and the number of times such amount is to be given per day; such statement to be provided for each month of age up to six months; and

(c) direction for storage and information regarding its keeping before and after the package has been opened.

(15) There shall also be written in the label on a package containing infant formula, in not less than 4 point lettering, the words ""INFANT FORMULA IS NOT THE ONLY FOOD FOR INFANTS OVER 6 MONTHS OF AGE"".

Reference: 

Link to eLENA "Regulation of marketing breast-milk substitutes" : https://www.who.int/tools/elena/interventions/regulation-breast-milk-sub...

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