FOODS REQUIRING MANDATORY NUTRITION LABELLING
The following foods are required to have mandatory nutrition labelling:
1) Foods as listed in Table 1 below. These foods have been selected because they are frequently consumed and in significant amounts, and are important to the community.
2) Foods that have been fortified, enriched, vitaminised, supplemented or strengthened with specific vitamins or minerals (as permitted under Regulations 26 (7)).
3) Foods that make nutrition claims.
4) Special purpose foods: infant formula, follow-up formula, canned food for infants and young children and cereal-based food for infants and young children.
However, if there is a specific labelling requirement for these foods, they must comply with the individual standard.
TABLE 1: CATEGORIES OF FOODS THAT REQUIRE MANDATORY NUTRITION LABELLING
REG. NO
FOOD CATEGORY
TYPES OF FOOD (as extracted from Food Regulations 1985)
64 - 75
Prepared cereal food and bread
Prepared cereal food (including breakfast cereals), bread (white bread, fruit bread, milk bread, meal bread, rye bread, wheat-germ bread, wholemeal bread, enriched bread)
84 - 87, 89 - 99 & 113
Milk product
Skimmed milk or skim milk or non-fat milk or separated milk, pasteurized milk, sterilized milk, ultra high temperature milk or U.H.T. milk, flavoured milk, full cream milk powder or dried full cream milk, skimmed milk powder or skim milk powder or dried non-fat milk solids or separated milk powder, malted milk powder, recombined milk, reconstituted milk, evaporated milk or unsweetened condensed milk, condensed milk sweetened condensed milk, lactose hydrolysed milk, filled milk, filled milk powder, evaporated filled milk/unsweetened condensed filled milk, condensed filled milk/sweetened condensed filled milk, cultured milk/fermented milk
135
Flour confection
Any pastry, cake, biscuit/other product prepared from a mixture of flour/meal and other food
149, 151, 161 & 220
Canned meat, fish and vegetable
Canned meat, canned meat with other food, canned fish, canned vegetable
233 - 242
Canned fruit and various fruit juices
Canned fruit, canned fruit cocktail, fruit juice (apple juice, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, lime juice, orange juice, passion fruit juice pineapple juice)
344 - 345
Salad dressing and mayonnaise
Salad dressing (including tartar sauce), mayonnaise
348 - 358
Soft drink
Syrup, fruit syrup/fruit cordial/fruit squash, flavoured syrup/flavoured cordial, fruit juice drink, fruit drink, flavoured drink, soft drink base/soft drink premix, botanical beverage mix, soya bean milk, soya bean drink
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GUIDELINES FOR LABELLING OF MANDATORY NUTRIENTS
The nutrients that must be declared on a nutrition label are energy, protein, carbohydrate and fat. In addition, total sugars must also be declared for ready-to-drink beverages. For labelling purposes, total sugars here are referred to all monosaccharide and disaccharide contained in a food either naturally occurring or added. In these regulations, ready-to-drink beverages include ready-to-drink soft drink, fruit and vegetable juices, ready-to-drink malted milk and flavoured milk. They do not include alcoholic beverages.
Information on energy value is to be expressed as kcal (kilocalories) per 100 g or per 100 ml of the food or per package if the package contains only a single portion. In addition, the energy value should also be given for each serving of the food as quantified on the label. Besides kcal, energy value may also be expressed as kilojoule (kJ).
The amount of protein, carbohydrate and fat should be expressed as g per 100 g or per 100 ml of the food or per package if the package contains only a single portion. In addition, the amount of these nutrients in the food should also be given for each serving of the food as quantified on the label.
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NUTRIENT CONTENT CLAIMS AND REQUIRED CONDITIONS
Food manufacturers should understand what types of nutrient content claims are permitted, and the conditions for making these claims.
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NUTRIENT CONTENT CLAIMS AND REQUIRED CONDITIONS
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NUTRIENT COMPARATIVE CLAIMS AND REQUIRED CONDITIONS
A nutrient comparative claim is a claim that compares the nutrient levels and/or energy value of two or more foods.
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