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Article 19 Omission of the list of ingredients

United Kingdom

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1.

The following foods shall not be required to bear a list of ingredients:

(a)

fresh fruit and vegetables, including potatoes, which have not been peeled, cut or similarly treated;

(b)

carbonated water, the description of which indicates that it has been carbonated;

(c)

fermentation vinegars derived exclusively from a single basic product, provided that no other ingredient has been added;

(d)

cheese, butter, fermented milk and cream, to which no ingredient has been added other than lactic products, food enzymes and micro-organism cultures essential to manufacture, or in the case of cheese other than fresh cheese and processed cheese the salt needed for its manufacture;

(e)

foods consisting of a single ingredient, where:

  1. (i)

    the name of the food is identical to the ingredient name; or

  2. (ii)

    the name of the food enables the nature of the ingredient to be clearly identified.

2.

In order to take into account the relevance for the consumer of a list of ingredients for specific types or categories of foods, F1regulations may be made, in exceptional cases, to supplement paragraph 1 of this Article, provided that omissions do not result in the final consumer or mass caterers being inadequately informed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 19(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/778), regs. 1, 4(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)