2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
From December 13 this year, restaurants, catering companies and home deliveries will be required to provide complete information about the meat on their menus.
Managers will need to inform their customers of the origin of the food they serve, where the animal was raised and when it was slaughtered before it enters their plate.
This was announced at the presentation of the new labeling regulation, which enters into force in mid-December.
The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency announced that they have already signed contracts with the Union of Food Industry and organizations of bakers and confectioners for training under the new regulation on food labeling.
The information about the slaughtered animals will be presented on labels, which will be present not only on the goods we buy from the store, but also in restaurants, home deliveries and catering, explained Dr. Lubomir Kulinski - Director of the Food Control and Border Control Directorate. BFSA.
This change is introduced so that each customer can be informed about the place where the animal was raised and the date on which it was slaughtered.
All ingredients in the offered food will be written on the labels. All possible allergens will be marked on the labels. Food supplements will be written with their full names, and not as before with the E's.
When you see the E 300, for example, what do you think? Dangerous preservative. In fact, it is vitamin C - explained Dr. Svetla Chamova, who is president of the Union of Food Industry.
After 2016, consumers will be informed about the energy value of products - fats, carbohydrates, sugars, proteins, salt and other important ingredients.
The BFSA adds that some companies still show the energy values of their products, but they do it at will, and in 2 years this will be mandatory.
Many users who try to read the labels have difficulty because the letters are too small. With the introduction of the new regulation, the letters will have to be 1.2 millimeters.
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