With formal adoption of the proposed EU Regulation on Food Information to Consumers imminent, the food industry will face the most significant changes to food labelling rules for a generation.

Gaining a clear understanding of their significance now will help companies to minimise their impact by enabling them to plan a programme of change.

To help them to do this, Campden BRI is devoting its annual Food Labelling seminar (see http://www.campden.co.uk/food-labelling-seminar.htm) to the topic this year on December 8th.

Event organiser Sheila Barbour, one of Campden BRI's legislation team, explains the main thrust of the event: "We will be discussing the main areas that the proposed changes will affect. These include: extended mandatory allergen labelling, compulsory nutrition labelling, extended origin labelling, and prescriptive clarity and legibility requirements.

"There will be speakers from Defra, the Department of Health, Trading Standards and the Local Better Regulation Office, as well as from industry, and there will be plenty of opportunity for discussions with the speakers and Chairman Greg Pearson of McCormick UK, who has many years' experience in giving practical advice on food legislation matters."