Following on from the changes last year, which we heavily covered here on our blog, there are a few additional changes to nutritional labelling legislation coming into force next year. From the 13th December 2016, nutrition information will become mandatory under EU Food Information to Consumers legislation.
The new nutritional labelling legislation makes nutrition labelling mandatory on pre-packaged food: It instructs food manufacturers to provide information on the energy value and 6 nutrients; fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt – in this order, and expressed per 100g or per 100ml of product. This information should be presented in a nutrition table (space permitting) in the same field of vision (most likely to be the back of the pack), and may, in addition, be expressed on a per portion basis.
For the majority of food packaging labels, a minimum font size of 1.2mm is required for all mandatory food information. Smaller packaging (with a largest surface below 80cm2) has a smaller minimum font size requirement of 0.9mm.
Additionally, voluntary information (e.g. slogans or claims) must not be presented in a manner that impinges on the presentation of mandatory information.
Nutritional Labelling Legislation Software
Positive ID Labels invested heavily last year, in developing software to help food manufacturers meet their obligations for nutritional labelling legislation.
In November 2016, we launched Nutridata, a nutrition calculation software system that allows food producers to compile nutrition information for their products.
This allows them to compile their ingredients, make recipes and then create products with nutrition values associated with them.
Positive ID Labels obviously thrives on providing labels for our customers. All of our labelling systems are supported by our own labelling manufacturing capability, ranging from as few as 5,000 to as many as 5,000,000 labels… and all at competitive prices.
We can design, print and deliver your labels within 1 week of your order, so you can ensure you products look amazing as quickly as possible.
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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.
Plants Plus
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.
Samsi
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For the majority of food packaging labels, a minimum font size of 1.2mm is required for all mandatory food information. Smaller packaging (with a largest surface below 80cm2) has a smaller minimum font size requirement of 0.9mm.
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