Listing Ingredients on the Labels of Alcoholic Beverages in the EU A Reality?

[...]this assessment should carefully study the effect that the different options would have on the internal market, the relevant economic sectors, the needs of consumers and the real use of the information in question, as well as the effects on international trade. According to the spirits sector,...

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Published inEuropean food and feed law review Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 233 - 240
Main Author Vaqué, Luis González
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 2018
Lexxion Verlag
Subjects
Advertising
Alcoholic beverages
Bar codes
Beverages
Consumers
Councils
Economic sectors
Food
Fruits
Ingredients
Labeling
Labels of Alcoholic Beverages
Listing Ingredients
Nutrition
Parliaments
Principles
Provisions
Regulation
Wines
Europe
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Summary:[...]this assessment should carefully study the effect that the different options would have on the internal market, the relevant economic sectors, the needs of consumers and the real use of the information in question, as well as the effects on international trade. According to the spirits sector, another advantage to offering off-label information is that more detailed information can be provided, in a more flexible way and adapted to the needs of individual consumers. [...]only additives that are not considered processing aids in the wine-making process, as defined in the OIV recommendations and in other work in progress, shall be included in the list of ingredients according to Article 20 of Regulation 1169/2011. [...]the annex that concerns me most is that of the important wine and aromatised wine sectors (section 4 of the third part of this article): I believe that this contradicts, or at least devalues, the commitments I have outlined in section 2, also in the third part. 1Council Directive 79/112/EEC of 18 December 1978 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs for sale to the ultimate consumer (OJ L 33, 8.2.1979, p. 1).
ISSN:1862-2720
2190-8214