List of ingredients and allergens on food labels

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• Requirements
  • General
  • Exemptions
  • Exceptions
• Manner of declaring
  • Ingredients
  • Components
  • Grouping sugars-based ingredients
  • Common names
  • Food allergens, gluten and added sulphites
  • Bilingualism
  • Flexibility in the declaration of a list of ingredients
• Legibility and location
  • Location
  • Font
  • Titles
  • Cases and separators
  • Colours and borders
• Artificial flavour
• Food additives in the list of ingredients
• Information letters
• Annex 1: Examples of Sugars-based ingredients that require grouping
  • A. Examples of Sugars-based ingredients that are monosaccharide, disaccharide or a combination of these
  • B. Examples of Sugars-based ingredients that are sweetening agents
  • C. List of Sugars-based ingredients that are functional substitutes for sweetening agents
• Annex 2: Examples of ingredients for which grouping with sugars is not required
• Definitions
  • Components
  • Flavouring preparation
  • Food allergens
  • Food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites statement
  • Functional substitute for a sweetening agent
  • Generations
  • Gluten
  • Ingredients
  • Leading
  • Spices, seasonings and herbs
  • Sugars-based ingredient
  • Sulphites
  • Sweetening agent