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Appendix III. Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods[16] (at Step 8 of the Procedure)

Section 4.2.1.3

Where an ingredient is itself the product of two or more ingredients, such a compound ingredient may be declared, as such, in the list of ingredients, provided that it is immediately accompanied by a list, in brackets, of its ingredients in descending order of proportion (m/m). Where a compound ingredient (for which a name has been established in a Codex standard or in national legislation) constitutes less than 5% of the food, the ingredients, other than food additives which serve a technological function in the finished product, need not be declared.


[16] Proposed amendment underlined.

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