Report on food labelling.

  • Great Britain. Food Standards Committee.
Date:
1964
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Credit: Report on food labelling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Single toffee apples. Sugar confectionery, chocolate other than block chocolate, and chocolate confectionery. Whole cooked beetroots (except when sold canned or bottled) Any preparation which is the subject of a monograph in the British Pharmacopoeia or in the formulary section of the British Pharmaceutical Codex. 66. It is important that manufacturers of foods to which the exemption from declaring ingredients applies should take advantage of it fully or not at all. A selective declaration of one or two ingredients, which may not even be major ones, is likely to mislead consumers. We therefore recommend that if a declara- tion of ingredients, although not required, is nevertheless made, it must be a declaration, in the form which we have recommended, of all ingredients present in the food. 67. The Labelling of Food Order at present also exempts certain food from the need to carry a declaration of its ingredients when the food itself is used as an ingredient in a compounded food. Although in paragraph 30 we have recom- mended that, as a general principle, the declaration on a compounded food should state the constituents of the ingredients and not the ingredients them- selves, we recommend that it is sufficient to state the ingredients (i) when the ingredients would, if sold as individual foods, not have to carry any declaration of ingredients. (Our recommended lists of these foods are in paragraphs 61 and 65) and (ii) in certain cases where, although we have not included the foods in paragraphs 61 or 65, we think that no purpose would be served, when they are used as ingredients of compounded foods, by a declaration of their constituents. These foods are:— Baking Powder *Breadcrumbs, ruskcrumbs, and rusk. *Chocolate. Golden raising powder. Ice-cream, including dairy ice-cream, etc. *Intoxicating liquor. *Macaroni and other forms of pasta. Margarine. Mustard. *Pickles and Sauces for which the appropriate designation clearly indicates the type of sauce or the major ingredient or ingredients. Self-raising flour. *Tomato Ketchup, catsup, sauce or relish. No declaration is required on any of them under the present Order, either because they are the subject of standards or (the starred items) because they are specifically exempted. 68. When, as recommended in the preceding paragraph, ingredients are declared instead of constituents, they should be described by the common or usual name that would be applied to them when sold as foods. 69. We have received representations that the following foods should be added to the list of exemptions from the requirement to declare the constituents of a food which is itself used as an ingredient in a compounded food :— 28