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Food Labelling

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Meet LabelMagic: Sharing Verified Food Information Has Never Been Easier!

Keeping food label information up-to-date and accurate has never been more important with most food businesses now having a legal obligation to provide detailed ingredient lists with accurate allergen listings.  The Nutritics LabelMagic system enables real time sharing of verified food label information from production sites to different locations in a read only format. Printing … Continued

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Your Top Questions About Nutrition and Health Claims

Using claims on foods can be tricky, and it’s important to get them right. We get lots of questions about how to use claims on foods. Here are the ones we get asked most often: Who sets nutrition claims? Nutrition claims are established by the Annex of EU Regulation 1926/2006.  Who enforces nutrition claims?   … Continued

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Your Start-to-Finish Guide on How to Create a Food Label

You’ve found your premises, named your brand, hired your staff and created a product range that you’re really proud of. You’re almost ready to go to market, but first you need to get your food label sorted. Where do you begin?  Here’s a quick overview of everything you’ll need to bring your food labels from … Continued

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What You Need to Know About Australia’s New CoOL Regulations for Seafood in Hospitality

What are the Seafood CoOL Regulations? Australia will soon introduce a legal requirement for Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) for seafood in hospitality settings. This means that restaurants, cafés and similar food businesses will need to provide information on the origins of their seafood dishes and products as part of CoOL Regulations. The goal is … Continued

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What Does the US FASTER Act Mean for Allergen Labelling?

What is the FASTER Act? The 2021 Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research (FASTER) Act, amongst other things, adds sesame to the list of major food allergens.  To protect those with food allergies and other food hypersensitivities, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforces laws requiring food manufacturers to specify ingredients that are … Continued

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What are the Basic Requirements for Lupin Allergen Labelling?

What is lupin allergen labelling? Mandatory declaration of the allergen lupin will begin for Australia and New Zealand on 26th May 2018. Lupin is a legume which belongs to the same plant family as peanuts and has the potential to be an allergen.  Lupin was added to the list of allergens that must be declared … Continued

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Using Nutritics to Support Your Use of Health Claims in Europe

European Union rules on nutrition and health claims are established by Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. This Regulation has been applied since the 1st of July 2007. If you make a nutrition or health claim on your product, you must comply with this regulation. The objective of the rules is to ensure that any claim made on a … Continued

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Providing accurate allergen information is a critical public health measure

1-2% of the UK adult population and 5-8% of children in the UK have a food allergy; this figure does not include those with food intolerances. In addition, it is estimated that 1 in 100 people have coeliac disease, a genetic and autoimmune disease triggered by eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and … Continued

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How We’re Helping to Create a Climate-Smart Food Culture

The global food system today has an enormous impact on the environment. One-third of food produced around the world is lost or wasted. On average, 70% of freshwater withdrawal is used for agriculture. Up to 37% of greenhouse gas emissions originate on the journey from farm to fork. Driven by striking statistics like these, the … Continued

How Well Do You Know The Provenance of Your Food and where it comes from?

Food crime is not a new concept. As long as food has been sold, there have been people participating in its adulteration, mislabelling and cheating.  The name ‘Champagne’ is legally protected and is reserved for sparkling wines produced in the Champagne region of France. According to research, however, the amount of Champagne sold annually is triple … Continued