EU regulations on traceability and labelling
The Scottish Executive and the Food Standards Agency Scotland held a joint consultation on the implementation of the new EU regulations on traceability and labelling and food and feed. Comments were requested by 16 July 2004 .
The traceability and labelling regulation provides a harmonised EU system on the documentation required to account for and identify GM products through the supply chain with the objective of facilitating accurate labelling. The food and feed regulations provide a centralised procedure through the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for the safety assessment of GM food and feed. Labelling will apply to foods which contain or consist of GMOs or are produced from or contain ingredients produced from GMOs. Labelling will not be required for approved GMOs if they are only present below the agreed threshold of 0.9% and their presence is adventitious or technically unavoidable.
The consultation documents are still held on the Food Standards Agency website.