The European Commission’s mandatory Food Information for Consumers regulations are due to be fully implemented in December this year.
The regulations call for allergen and nutrition information to be displayed as well as country of origin information for pig, sheep, goat and poultry meat. Country of origin information already has to be displayed for beef.
The new regulations also cover dates for frozen products, the constitution of minced meat products and the amount of water added to products.
Speaking at a seminar in London hosted by the Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum on Food Labelling Regulation – implementation, impact and the future for UK policy, David Pickering, trading standards manager from Buckinghamshire and Surrey Trading Standards Service said that “Brexit offers an opportunity to look at what we are putting on food labels”.
“Exit from the EU does create opportunities,” he said.
Mr Pickering said that the complication in implementing the new regulations comes with the extension of the rules to the food service sector.
Mick Sloyan, the strategy director at AHDB Pork called for an extension of the country of origin labelling regulations for processed meats and meat products.
And he added that if a product contains meat from several countries, those countries should be named on the label.
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