Dietary Foodstuff Ordinance. Country/Territory Germany Document type Regulation Date 1963 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 25, 6 May 2005, pp. 1161-1212. Long titleOrdinance on dietary foodstuff. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety Special dietary uses Food additives Packaging/labelling Offences/penalties Geographical area Alps, Europe, EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe Abstract The present Ordinance implements inter alia the Commission Directive 99/21/EC on dietary foods for special medical purposes and the Commission Directive 2001/15/EC on substances that may be added for specific nutritional purposes in foods for particular nutritional uses. It deals with dietary foodstuff to be used for special nutritional purposes, for example, such as slimming. The text consists of 29 articles divided into 6 Parts as follows: General provisions (I); Food additives and other substances to be used in dietary foods (II); Special provisions for certain foodstuffs (III); Packaging and labellilng (IV); Penalties and violations (V); Final provisions (VI). Twenty-three Annexes are enclosed. Full text German References - Legislation Implements Commission Directive 1999/21/EC on dietary foods for special medical purposes. Legislation | European Union | 1999 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Packaging/labelling, Special dietary uses Source: FAO, FAOLEX Commission Directive 2001/15/EC on substances that may be added for specific nutritional purposes in foods for particular nutritional uses Legislation | European Union | 2001 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Special dietary uses Source: FAO, FAOLEX