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User Guide - Information Requirements for Foods Exempt from Bearing a Label 

User guide to Information Requirements for Foods Exempt from Bearing a Label

July 2001

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This guide looks at which foods are exempt from bearing a label and how consumers can be informed about these foods in other ways.

The purpose of this user guide relates to provisions of the following standards that apply to foods that are exempt from bearing a label setting out all of the information prescribed in the new Code:

Standard 1.2.1 - Interpretation and Application of Labelling and Other Information Requirements
Standard 1.2.3 - Mandatory Warning and Advisory Statements and Declarations
Standard 1.2.8 - Nutrition Information Requirements
Standard 1.2.10 - Characterising Ingredients and Components of Food
Standard 1.5.1 - Novel Foods
Standard 1.5.2 - Food Produced Using Gene Technology
Standard 1.5.3 - Irradiation of Food
Standard 2.2.1 - Meat and Meat Products
Standard 2.2.3 - Fish and Fish Products
Standard 2.6.3 - Kava.

This guide is intended to help retailers and manufacturers interpret and apply the standards they should consider when deciding which foods are exempt from bearing a label and providing information in other ways to consumers about those foods.

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