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Labelling and Packaging
The Food Standards Agency is concerned not only with the food we eat but with what it is sold in and how that is labelled.
The Agency is responsible for making sure that the rules on the safety of materials that come into contact with food are enforced. Food contact materials include the containers food is sold in, the packaging, as well as the articles used to handle food, from food processing machinery to cutlery.
Food labels are a useful source of information, primarily to inform and protect consumers. Much of the Agency's current work on labelling is to help make sure that people get the information they need in an understandable form.
Visit our consumer advice website eatwell for more information about how to read labels, plus an explanation of what the most common terms on food labels mean. Details of our day-to-day work, including policy, research, guidance and campaigns, are set out below.
More about Labelling and Packaging
Proposed regulation on food information for consumers
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Labelling Guidance
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UK list of health claims
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Labelling Conference 2006
Guide to UK Legal Compliance and Good Practice for Business Documentation: Materials and Articles in Contact with Food
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Guidance on the Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) Regulations 2009
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Food contact materials workshop
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Food Contact Materials and Articles - Update on issues: December 2007
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Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2006: Guidance notes
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Food Contact Materials and Articles Legislation Guidance Notes
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Food contact materials: Your Questions Answered
Adhesives
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Aluminium
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Bisphenol-A (BPA)
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Cling film
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Phthalates
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Plastics
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Re-using packaging
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Working Party on Food Contact Materials
Independent signpost evaluation study
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Supporters of FSA's approach to signpost labelling
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Retailers, manufacturers, importers/suppliers and service providers that use signpost labelling
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Breakfast cereal research
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Timeline of signposting scheme development
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Signpost labelling research
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Board agrees principles for front of pack labelling
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Technical guidance
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Front of label tracking survey
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Signposting policy review
Labelling research
Research on labelling issues
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Packaging committees
Working group that advises the Agency
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Labelling publications
Leaflets on food labelling
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