A guide to food law regulations

Thursday 2 November 2006

The Food Standards Agency has issued new draft guidance notes on the General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002. A consultation on the guidance is also underway to ensure that the final published version will be of the greatest help to the widest range of stakeholders.

The guidance provides advice on compliance with legal requirements covering food and feed safety, traceability provisions and the need to notify, withdraw and/or recall products not conforming with food and feed safety requirements.

These new guidance notes have been written to address responses to the public consultation exercise on the EC Guidance for the Regulation, held between July and October 2005. The details of this consultation are available in the 'See also' section below.