The Packaging and Labelling of Food Products in the European Regulatory Requirements

Abstract

Starting from the principle of safety and consumer protection, especially of the European consumer on the single market where products from all Member States are presented, ensuring equal competition regarding the market access for all products and imposing binding rules to all producers and distributors of food products as regards the correct and complete information about the content of the products, the manufacturing, shelf life, and place of origin, the European legislation on food labeling has evolved both in terms of complex and stringent regulations, as well as in terms of the type of legislation, the enactment through directives to the adoption of regulations for direct application, as the latest legislation regulatory document, the EU Regulation no.1169 / 2011.