US and EU labelling regulations and the Post Brexit UK

27 February 2017

The EU regulation specifies that energy, protein, fat, saturates, carbohydrates, sugars, and salt must be on all labels of food sold in the EU. In the US manufacturers have to get their nutrition labels in line with new legislation by 2018. In addition to the already required information on calories, fat, saturated fat, trans fat, carbohydrates, sugars and salt, and ‘added sugar’ as mandatory component.
Following Brexit, the UK will no longer have to conform to EU labelling regulations. Given that good nutrition is currently a big focus in the UK, it may take on a more comprehensive nutrition labelling structure, such as the one in the US (Euromonitor International, 26 January 2017).
Click here to read the full article.
Click here for EU Regulation 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (consolidated version of 19-2-2014).
Click here for the Final Rule of the FDA on Revision of the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels.

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