Advances in Food and Beverage Labelling

- List of contributors - Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition - Preface - Part One: General trends in regulation and enforcement of food labelling - 1: The EU food information for consumers regulation - Abstract - 1.1 Introduction - 1.2 General requirements and responsibilities - 1.3 Mandatory food information - 1.4 Distance selling - 1.5 Future trends - 2: Current regulation of food and beverage labelling in the USA - Abstract - 2.1 Introduction - 2.2 Regulatory oversight of labelling between government bodies - 2.3 The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics (FD&C) Act and The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act - 2.4 The main labelling requirements according to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act - 2.5 Allergen labelling - 2.6 Net quantity of contents - 2.7 Date marking and the uniform open dating regulations - 2.8 Country of origin - 2.9 Distance selling - 2.10 The future of US food labels? - 2.11 Sources of further information and advice - 3: Enforcement of food and beverage labelling legislation: enforcement bodies and relevant legislation in the UK - Abstract - 3.1 Introduction - 3.2 The enforcement jigsaw: local government food authorities - 3.3 Wider responsibilities of local food regulators - 3.4 National and regional coordination of local authority enforcement - 3.5 National arrangements for consumer complaints about food and beverage labelling - 3.6 Outline of relevant legislation relating to food and beverage labelling - 3.7 Future trends - 4: Enforcement of food and beverage labelling legislation: enforcement policies and codes in the UK - Abstract - 4.1 Introduction - 4.2 Enforcement policies relating to food and beverage labelling - 4.3 Local approaches to enforcement - 4.4 The implications of a failure to meet legal obligations relating to food and beverage labelling - 4.5 Future trends - Part Two: Trends in labelling relating to nutrition and health - 5: Nutrition and related labelling of foods and beverages: the case of the USA - Abstract - 5.1 Introduction - 5.2 Nutrition labelling: general requirements - 5.3 Formats for nutrition labels - 5.4 Nutrition labelling in restaurants and for alcoholic beverages - 5.5 Voluntary labelling statements: nutrient content claims - 5.6 Voluntary labelling statements: health claims - 5.7 Voluntary labelling statements: organic controls, GM labelling and claims - 5.8 Voluntary labelling statements: gluten-free and "natural claims - 5.9 Future trends - 6: Health claims on food and beverage labels: comparing approaches in the EU and the USA - Abstract - 6.1 Introduction - 6.2 Regulation of health and health-related claims in the EU - 6.3 Regulation of health and health-related claims in the US - 6.4 Summary, conclusions and future trends - 7: Front-of-pack (FOP) labelling of foods and beverages - Abstract - 7.1 Introduction - 7.2 Development of FOP labels - 7.3 Impact of FOP labelling - 7.4 Future trends and developments - Acknowledgements - 8: Consumer interpretation of nutrition and other information on food and beverage labels - Abstract - 8.1 Introduction - 8.2 Consumer perception and use of front-of-package information - 8.3 Consumers ability and motivation to process health-related information from food packages - 8.4 Consumer understanding of health-related information - 8.5 Future trends - Part Three: Trends in labelling relating to other aspects of food quality - 9: Ethical and environmental labelling of foods and beverages - Abstract - 9.1 Introduction - 9.2 Defining ethical labelling - 9.3 Defining environmental labelling - 9.4 Control of labelling schemes - 9.5 The motivation behind consumer purchasing choices - 9.6 A review of global environmental and ethical schemes - 9.7 A review of industry labels and schemes - 9.8 Economics of the main labelling schemes - 9.9 Summary - 9.