The Packaging Dichotomy

The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code features a wide-ranging labelling regime for packaged foods sold in Australia. For example it sets out the various Standards detailing requirements for ingredients listings, nutrition information, lot identification numbers, mandatory warning statements and a plethora of other details on labels. What happens however when the package is so small that it is physically impossible to include all this information? What about where food possesses both an inner and outer layer of packaging? This article explains some of the limits and exceptions applicable for labelling in a variety of circumstances.

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