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Documents for labelling and composition of food
Find guidance documents for labelling your food product.
General labelling guides
A guide to retail food labelling [PDF, 1.1 MB]
A guide to labelling food sold to caterers or food service businesses [PDF, 557 KB]
A guide to labelling food supplied to a food manufacturer or processor [PDF, 230 KB]
Allergens can kill – lives are in your hands [PDF, 483 KB]
Country of origin food labelling rules [PDF, 563 KB]
Product-specific guides
A guide to alcoholic drinks: what’s in them and how to label them [PDF, 678 KB]
A guide to New Zealand honey labelling [PDF, 332 KB]
A guide to labelling food containing hemp seeds [PDF, 652 KB]
A guide to hemp seeds as food [PDF, 521 KB]
Labelling and selling eggs in their shells (shell eggs) [PDF, 1 MB]
Labelling requirements for irradiated foods [PDF, 192 KB]
Labelling requirements for irradiated foods – Chinese language version [PDF, 882 KB]
Sulphur dioxide/sulphites in meat [PDF, 242 KB]
Supplemented food standard user guide [PDF, 670 KB]
