ICE develops labelling solution to address EU food regulations

Coding company, Interactive Coding (ICE), is offering a solution to help food companies prepare for a forthcoming new EU food regulation.

The Food Information to Consumers Regulations (FIC) are due to come into force in December this year and will set rules on how food should be labelled. The new regulations will also include rules for advertisement and distance selling.

In a bid to speed up the process of re-labelling food products, ICE has developed its CLARiTY software which will come as standard with all of its coders. Although a large proportion of the legislation will affect pre-printed label design the CLARiTY software can fulfil the regulation where it impacts on overprinted information.

The CLARiTY software enables the user to select almost any Windows TrueType font in any size on the label. For example, a minimum font size of 1.2mm is required for large packs and 0.9mm for medium packs less than 80cm2.  New rules requiring allergen information to be clearly distinguished from the rest of the list of ingredients can be met through the ability to highlight, make bold, underline or change the font for these details.

For meat producers, another important feature of the software is the flexibility of being able to add variable information regarding fat content onto the label.  The CLARiTY software is also able to include full traceability, which will meet new rules for country of origin or place of provenance information.

Chris Simpson, ICE’s managing director comments, “The CLARiTY software gives much more flexibility to our customers, particularly small and medium sized companies, who have less capacity, resource and guidance when regulations such as these are implemented.”

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