Food Safety Works can ensure your food labels meet mandatory legal requirements for all packaged foods sold in New Zealand under the Food Standards Code for Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). We provide labelling and regulatory expertise.
You may be updating your labels to meet Plain English Allergen Labelling (PEAL) requirements, and to help your customers identify and understand allergen information on food labels more easily.
It is all about customers making informed and safe food choices and ensuring that if you are selling food, you are compliant. By 25 February 2024 food labels must be updated to meet new rules, and businesses must have trained their staff so the information they give customers meets the new rules. Any food packaged and labelled before this date, under the existing rules, may be sold for a further 2 years, but this may mean a lot less time for you.
We can help you understand and develop PEAL-compliant labels and offer staff training modules to help with the introduction of plain English allergen labelling.
Full FSANZ Compliant Labelling includes:
- Label compliance requirements under FSANZ General Food Standards 1.2 and Food Product Standards.
- Database calculations for mandatory Nutrition Information Panels (NIPs).
- Nutrition Information Panels from Laboratory Analysis.
- Code of Practice on Nutrition Claims in Food Labels and Advertisements.
- Label Claims in accordance to Fair Trading Act - Consumer Information.
- Our label compliance service is licensed to FoodWorks.Online, the industry standard in nutritional analysis software.
- We follow industry-standard Supplier Specifications for all ingredients and additives and help you to source the inputs you need.
Our label service produces a compliant label format and all the advice required for relaunching your food product into the market.
We incorporate your chosen graphics, marketing claims, nutrition claims and mandatory food code detail. Or you can leave all aspects of labelling with us and we provide all the elements of graphic design, layout and compliance details.