Skip navigation

Food Standards Agency

Saturday 4 July 2009

Safer food better business banner

AZ-Directory What's New

Quantitative Ingredient Declarations (QUID) Guidance Notes

Tuesday 11 March 2003

Food Labelling Regulations 1996, as amended by the Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and the Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999.

These notes have been produced with the aim of providing informal, non-statutory guidance on quantitative ingredient declarations (QUID).

They place the similar guidance developed by the European Commission (III/5260-rev5/98) in a UK context and should be read in conjunction with regulation 19 of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, as amended by the Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and the Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999.

The examples which they contain are provided for illustration only.

The notes and examples should not be taken as an authoritative statement or interpretation of the law, as only the courts have this power.

Back to top

Preface

These guidance notes relate to the new rules on quantitative ingredient declarations for foodstuffs (QUID) contained in regulation 9 of the Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and regulation 4 of the Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999.

The new rules replace those in regulation 19 of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996.

Full compliance with the new rules is not obligatory before 14 February 2000 (regulation 13 of the Food Labelling (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and regulation 6 of the Food Labelling (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999).

Back to top

Related links

The Food Labelling Regulations 1996: guidance notes on Quantitive Ingredient Declarations ('QUID')

Download pdf  (pdf 60KB) (External) Get Adobe Acrobat reader You may need the free Acrobat Reader to view a pdf

Tell a Friend

Printer friendly

Contact us

Get alerts

Our Sites

Find out what our other sites have to offer

Change Text Only Settings

Graphic version of this page