What information must be included on a food label?

Food labels provide information to help us make healthier and safer food choices.  Essentially, food labels are there to provide us with basic information about what is in the food we eat and how best to handle it.

All food labels must identify the following information:

• Name and description of the food
• Identification of the lot number (food recall information)
• Name and Australian street address of the supplier of food  (food recall Information)
• List of ingredients
• Date mark
• Nutrition information panel (NIP)
• Country of origin of the food
• Warning and advisory statements