Food Labels Required To State Fortification

On the 14th of October, 2016 the Food and Food Standards (Fortification) Regulations Statutory Instrument 120 of 2016 were published in the Government Gazette. The regulations require that certain foods imported or commercially produced must be fortified. Food fortification as defined in the regulations means, "the addition of one or more essential nutrients to a food whether or not it is normally contained in the food, for the purposes of preventing and correcting a demonstrated deficiency of one or more nutrients in the population or specific population groups". The food stuffs listed in the regulations which require fortification are "maize meal, salt, wheat, sugar and edible vegetable oil".

The regulations have an extensive provision on the requirements of labelling of the listed food products. "Label" as defined in the regulations means, "a tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written, printed, stencilled, marked, impressed or attached to a container of any food products". The regulations require that, "all packaged food shall be labelled in a manner that is true and accurate to distinguish the character, nature, composition, quality, safety...