Regulation 5A Foods that are prepacked for direct sale – duty to list ingredientsF1

(1)

A food business operator who offers for sale a food to which this regulation applies must provide directly on the package or on a label attached to the package the particulars required by—

(a)

Article 9(1)(b) (list of ingredients), as read with—

(i)

Article 13(1) to (3), as read with any regulations made under Article 13(4),

(ii)

Article 15,

(iii)

Article 16(2), so far as it relates to the particulars required by Article 9(1)(b),

(iv)

Article 17, as read with Parts A and C of Annex 6 and, in the case of an ingredient using a minced meat designation as a name, the following points of Part B of Annex 6—

(aa)

point 1, and

(bb)

point 3, as read with regulation 4 and Schedule 2,

(v)

Article 18, as read with Annex 7 and paragraph (1)(a)(iv) of this regulation,

(vi)

Article 19(1), as read with any regulations made under Article 19(2), and

(vii)

Article 20;

(b)

Article 9(1)(c) (labelling of certain substances or products causing allergies or intolerances), as read with Article 21(1) and Annex 2.

(2)

This regulation applies to a food that—

(a)

is offered for sale to a final consumer or to a mass caterer otherwise than by means of distance communication, and

(b)

is prepacked for direct sale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 5A substituted (19.5.2022) by The Food Information (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/481), regs. 1(1), 2(2)