User Guide - Overview of Food Labelling 

User guide to Food Labelling and Other Information Requirements

July 2001

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This guide provides background information on the general labelling requirements in the new Code. The information in this guide applies both to food for retail sale and to food for catering purposes.

Foods for catering purposes means those foods for use in restaurants, canteens, schools, caterers or self-catering institutions, where food is offered for immediate consumption.

Please note: Labelling and information requirements in the new Code apply both to food sold or prepared for sale in Australia and New Zealand and food imported into Australia and New Zealand.

This guide should be used in conjunction with other user guides developed for the labelling standards and for some general standards.  These are the user guides on:

• Warning and Advisory Declarations
• Ingredient Labelling
• Date Marking
• Nutrition Information Requirements
• Legibility Requirements for Food Labels
• Percentage Labelling
• Food Additives
• Representations about Food
• Information Requirements for Foods Exempt from Bearing a Label
• Labelling Genetically Modified Food