FIC, FIR and food sold loose From September 2014 newsletter

FIC, FIR and food sold loose


The long-awaited domestic Food Information Regulation (FIR) has finally been published; this is not to be confused with the EU Food Information to Consumers Regulation (FIC). Although very closely related, the two are quite different: the European FIC describes how to label food and sets a common standard across all EU Member States, whereas the domestic FIR enables the execution and enforcement of the FIC in the UK. The FIR, however, does more than just that, as it contains some national labelling provisions that are not specifically found in the FIC:



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