food law bulletin - July 2010
Our Food law team produces a food
law bulletin to keep you a breast of changes in the law that may
affect your business.
Click on the links below to read the articles in July's edition
of the food law bulletin.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has recently issued detailed new guidance on the labelling of added ingredients in meat products covered by Regulation 5 of the Meat Products Regulations.
Following recent incidents where milk from TB reactor animals has entered the food chain, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has written to local authorities to remind them of the requirements under EC Hygiene Regulations relating to the loss of officially tuberculosis free (OTF) status in a dairy herd.
From 20 July 2010, any food or drink which contains the colours Sunset yellow, Quinoline yellow, Carmosine, Allura red, Tartrazine or Ponceau 4 R must provide the following additional information on the food label – “name or E number of the colour(s): may have an adverse effect on the activity and attention in children”.
In June the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health published guidance on food safety standards and health and safety requirements for outdoor and mobile catering which aims to provide consistent interpretation of the relevant environmental health requirements and encourage proportionality within enforcement protocols.
For more information, please contact Jane
Hanney, food law specialist in Blake
Lapthorn's Food law team on 023 8090 8090 or email
jane.hanney@bllaw.co.uk.
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