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Dietary Foodstuff Ordinance.

Country/Territory
Germany
Document type
Regulation
Date
1963 (2015)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
Ordinance 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
Website
www.bmj.de

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

Amended by

Fifteenth Ordinance amending the Dietary Foodstuff Ordinance.

Legislation | Germany | 2007

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Special dietary uses, Breastfeeding/infant food, Nutrition

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Fourteenth Ordinance amending the Dietary Foodstuff Ordinance.

Legislation | Germany | 2007

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Special dietary uses

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Second Ordinance amending the Additives Admissions Ordinance and other Foodstuff Ordinances.

Legislation | Germany | 2008

Keyword: Viticulture/oenological practices, Food quality control/food safety, Food additives, Breastfeeding/infant food, Internal trade, International trade, Condiments/herbs/spices, Nutrition

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Thirteenth Ordinance amending the Dietary Foodstuff Ordinance.

Legislation | Germany | 2006

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Special dietary uses, Food additives, Packaging/labelling, Access-to-information

Source: FAO, FAOLEX