The Health Ministry’s Central Board of Health (CBH) has granted additional exemption to the Food and Safety (amendment) Regulation 2012 with regards to food labeling.
Amendments to Regulation 22 of the Food and Safety regulation were made by the Central Board of Health in 2012 to retain and repel certain contents and features of food labels.
Now, the nutrition information panel on food labels will retain trans fatty acids, sodium, sugar and total fat while saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol has been repealed.
Font size 12 has also been repealed from the Food & Safety (Amendment) regulation 2012.
All food business operators will now adhere to regulation 22 and 23 (b) of the Food & Safety regulation 2009 which states “statements required to appear on the label by virtue of this regulation shall be clear, prominent, indelible and readily legible by the consumer under normal conditions of purchase and use.
The implementation date for this amendment regulation has also been postponed to 1st January 2015. All other provisions of regulation 22 & 23 (b) are retained.
Meanwhile the Food and Safety (amendment) regulation 2012 was gazetted after consultations with the Food Business operators (FBO).
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