The label shall indicate the following items: (1) Name, specification, net content and production date; (2) List of ingredients or ingredients; (3) The name, address and contact information of the producer; (4) shelf life; (5) product standard code; (6) storage conditions; (7) Generic names of food additives used in national standards; (eight) the production license number; (nine) other matters that must be marked by laws, regulations or food safety standards.
The labels of main and supplementary foods specially designed for infants and other specific groups should also indicate the main nutritional components and their contents.
Food labels refer to all labels, marks, characters, figures and symbols attached to food packaging containers.
The basic function of food label is to convey the quality characteristics, safety characteristics, eating and drinking instructions of food to consumers scientifically by clearly and accurately describing the name, ingredient list, net content, producer name, batch number and production date of food.
Prepackaged foods is a food that is prepackaged in a specified amount, or poured into a container after packaging and directly provided to consumers.
In order to prevent pollution during transportation, fruits, vegetables, aquatic products, livestock meat, poultry meat, eggs, small pieces of candy, chocolate, instant food boxes and other transport packaged or non-quantitative packaged foods sold in stores do not belong to prepackaged foods; Raw materials and auxiliary materials used in food and catering industry that are not directly sold to consumers, even if they are packaged, do not belong to prepackaged foods.
According to the requirements of the Food Safety Law, there must be a label on the packaging of prepackaged foods, and the label should indicate specific matters. This is a mandatory norm, which protects consumers' right to know and choose.
In case of producing and selling unlabeled prepackaged foods, or food whose labels and instructions do not conform to the provisions of this Law, the relevant competent department may impose a fine of less than five times the value of the goods and revoke its license.
In recent years, some food producers simply label food additives as "stabilizers, colorants and sweeteners", but the specific varieties are not clear. In fact, many food additives used are compound food additives.
If the specific name is not indicated, food operators may use a large number of compound food additives under the guise of "stabilizer, colorant and sweetener", which will endanger consumers' health.
At the same time, some food producers use chemical molecular names when labeling food additives. For ordinary consumers, these chemical formula names may be unheard of, but if you tell them the commonly used names in national standards, you will generally know them.
Therefore, the Food Safety Law stipulates that prepackaged foods should indicate the generic names of food additives used in national standards.
The main and supplementary foods for infants and other specific groups are different from other foods in meeting the needs of infants and other specific groups, and their nutritional components and contents are significantly different.
If the food label says that there are some nutrients, but there are not, the nominal nutrient content reaches a certain level, but it is actually lower than the nominal content, which will definitely affect the growth and development of infants and the health of other specific groups, and even endanger life.
To this end, the Food Safety Law stipulates that the relevant authorities may impose a fine of 10 times the maximum value of the main and auxiliary foods specially designed for specific groups such as infants and children, and revoke their licenses.