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Provisional German Beer Act.

Country/Territory
Germany
Document type
Legislation
Date
1931 (2000)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Bundesgesetzblatt, Part I, No. 42, 7 August 1993, pp.1399-1401.
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Viticulture/oenological practices Standards
Geographical area
Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Western Europe
Abstract

The present Provisional Act on the purity of beer replaces the “Reinheitsgebot” (Purity Law) of 1516 allowing constituent components prohibited in the previous one, such as wheat malt and cane sugar, but no longer allowing unmalted barley. The text consists of 25 articles.

Full text
German
Website
www.bgbl.de