After initially confusing food businesses as to whether they must comply with upcoming draft European Union (EU) rules on country-of-origin labelling, the European Commission has told GlobalMeatNews that its planned new rules will be voluntary.

 

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Food Labelling Services comments:

Beef and veal are subjet to seperate labelling regulations (SI 983 of 2010). Pork, lamb, goat and poultry also have to declare country of origin labelling as prescribed in the Food Information Regulations 1169/2011. It will be interesting to follow the draft consultation as to the labelling of the prime ingredient in a product if the country of origin is different to that indicated on the packaging, as this is the area in which there is going to be a significant amount of debate.