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The impact of 1992 on food law
Author(s) -
COCKBILL CHARLES A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
nutrition bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1467-3010
pISSN - 1471-9827
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-3010.1990.tb00058.x
Subject(s) - judgement , labelling , business , food labelling , quality (philosophy) , food packaging , food products , food additive , risk analysis (engineering) , work (physics) , food quality , consumer protection , food science , microbiology and biotechnology , law , political science , psychology , chemistry , commerce , engineering , biology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , criminology
Summary The essential purpose of food law is consumer protection while quality judgement is a matter for the individual, based on informative labelling. Although the Council has agreed major frameworks directives, much detailed work is still required including; an agreed common list of food additives; the problems of the constituents of packaging materials and their possible migration into food; the assessment of quality of dietary products for their declared aims; limits for environmental contaminants; the approach to be adopted for biotechnology products and the labelling of foods containing ingredients which have been irradiated.