Trading Standards Experts Launch New Label Compliance Checking Service

01 Jul 2014 --- Foodchain Europe has launched a full Label Compliance Checking service designed for both food and non-food businesses who wish to sell their products overseas.

Using locally based labelling law experts, the new Label Check Service ensures that products are not just compliant in the EU but further afield too. As well as being able to check label compliance and translation if required in the EU, FoodChain is also able to check product labels destined for USA, Mexico, India, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and Israel among many others.

FoodChain Europe will give the label a full Label Compliance Check and sign off the label once corrections have been made, ready for print. The fact that the label has been signed off in the country in which it is checked means that the client can be assured that the label is legal and that if challenged by Trading Standards, the company would have a Due Diligence defence.

Stuart Shotton, Client Services Director at FoodChain Europe explains: “Although every EU member state has to comply with Food Information Regulations, locally they are also able to add their own labelling laws meaning that even if a label is compliant with FIR it may not be 100% compliant throughout Europe.”

“By using locally based labelling experts we are party to the local labelling laws and if these relate to a particular product. Our service means that food manufacturers can ensure that their products are correctly labelled for the market they are targeting at an early stage and that artwork change costs are not incurred unnecessarily.”