Nutrition Information: An idiot’s guide in a single blog post.
So starting off really simply, food means any substance or product intended to be or expected to be ingested by humans. However, food does not include feed, live animals unless they are prepared for placing on the market for human consumption, plants prior to harvesting, most medicines cosmetics and tobacco, narcotic or psychotropic substances and residues and contaminants.
Nutrition information means information concerning a food and made available to the final consumer by means of a label, other accompanying material, or any other means including modern technology tools or verbal communication.
The food nutrition laws are the European Union regulations and directives governing the food information, and in particular labelling. This includes rules of a general nature applicable to all foods in particular circumstances or to certain categories of foods and rules which apply only to specific foods.
Nutrition Declaration or Nutrition Labelling is information stating the levels of energy, fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt. To find out more information about this, please click here.
The nutrition information must be conveyed per 100g or per 100ml (for liquid food stuffs). The order of the information is prescribed and must not be deviated from. Additional voluntary nutrients may be included in the listing too but these may only be in the order prescribed in the regulations. Information must be placed on the back of your packaging but may be conveyed on the front of pack too; again under strict guidelines. The reason for this is that the EU has specified food information must be conveyed in the same manner no matter which part of the EU you are buying your food!
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Last year Freezeland Ltd, a London based retailer of frozen products, contacted us regarding their labelling. Here at Positive ID we are proud to announce that we completely revamped their labelling process. We now supply them with 70,000 labels a year for them to use on their desktop printer system.
Freezeland Ltd
The result is a clearly read label giving all the details necessary. Jackie Harris, Technical Manager at Plants Plus explained that Positive ID Labels labelling solution has speeded up the labelling operation by more than 50%, with a significant cost saving. “It’s ideal for our business,” she said.
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Orexis Fresh Foods Ltd is a family run Food Manufacturing Company specializing in ethnic dips, Mexican dips, luxury salads and sandwich fillings. Orexis Ltd approached Positive ID for a simple cost effective way to apply a “Best Before” and “Batch Number” to a range of their products.
The answer was to use a two line-labelling gun. George Katsaros from Orexis said “we have been using Positive ID for 3 years now and they initially advised us correctly about the right products to use and have been well pleased and served by them since”.
Orexis Fresh Foods
Samantha Gore from Samsi was particularly pleased that we met all the deadlines and she described the experience as ‘fun’ and stated that all staff from Positive ID were very friendly and happy to help. Also, she thanked us for our patience with all the refinements she desired.We are proud to hold great relationships with all of our customers and look forward to many other stories like this in the near future.
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The food nutrition laws are the European Union regulations and directives governing the food information, and in particular labelling. This includes rules of a general nature applicable to all foods in particular circumstances or to certain categories of foods and rules which apply only to specific foods.
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