# The Bread and Flour (Wales) Regulations 2025, Regulation 5: Requirements in relation to the use of the terms “wholemeal” and “wheat germ”

Extent: E+W

(1) A person acting in the course of a business must not sell or advertise for sale any bread in contravention of this regulation.
(2) In the labelling or advertising of bread, a term specified in paragraph (3) may be used as part of the name of the bread, whether or not qualified by other words, only where the requirements of that paragraph in relation to that term are met.
(3) The term—
(a) “wholemeal”, “gwenith cyflawn” or the equivalent term in any other language may be used where all the flour used as an ingredient in the preparation of the bread is wholemeal flour;
(b) “wheat germ”, “bywyn gwenith” or the equivalent in any other language may be used where the bread has an added processed wheat germ content of 10% or more calculated on the dry matter of the bread.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/88/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bread-and-flour-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-5
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