Altered labeling on Nutricia products associated with the new EU regulation

From December 2014 a new EU regulation entered into force regarding the labeling of foodstuffs (EU 1169/2011). Since the regulation also covers foods for special medical purposes (FSMP) the labels on Nutricia products are to get a new appearance.

The new regulation includes the following changes:

Writing on the labels gets bigger, allowing for improved readability.
Order of macronutrients modified and printed as fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, protein, instead of protein, carbohydrate, fat, dietary fiber.
Declaration of the oils contained in vegetable fat.
Abbreviations such as B1 after thiamine in the nutrition table has been removed
Amendment to the unit for some minerals:
- Copper and manganese, in mg instead g
- Niacin declared in both the mg and the Niacin equivalent, mg NE
Both sodium and salt declared.

For most of Nutricia products in the bottle this means the larger font size that all information does not fit on the bottle itself, but all the information is as before to find in the enclosing outer packaging (such as 4-pack nutritional drinks). You can always find full product details at Nutricia’s website.

The changes on the labels of Nutricia products will be implemented gradually, beginning from August this year. When the labels are updated, a few products that change part and / or EAN codes.

Source: Nutricia

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