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EU food label particulars checklist
Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 has applied since 13 December 2014, and the nutrition declaration in Article 9(1)(l) since 13 December 2016 (EUR-Lex). By then a Shopify store selling food online should have made the mandatory particulars, including allergens and nutrition, available before purchase: EU Food Info Guard on the Shopify App Store.
Direct answer. Paste the text of a food label or product page, for example Ingredients: oat flakes, sugar, HAZELNUTS (12%), milk powder. 500 g. Best before: see lid. Example Foods Ltd, 1 High Street, AB1 2CD. The page lists the mandatory particulars of Article 9(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 that your text seems to mention or not, names any Annex II allergens it finds and whether they look emphasised, each as a question to check. It does not say whether the label complies. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
This is a reading aid, not legal advice and not what any app checks. To detect the 14 Annex II allergens from your ingredient text, flag an allergen the ingredients mention but your declared list omits, and show it on the product page, try EU Food Info Guard (Shopify App Store).
Paste your food label text
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Install EU Food Info Guard → detect Annex II allergens from ingredients
Where the questions come from
The rows follow the mandatory particulars in Article 9(1)(a) to (l) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, with the article that sets each one out: name (Article 17), ingredients (Articles 18 and 19), allergens (Article 21 and Annex II), quantity of ingredients (Article 22), net quantity (Article 23), dates (Article 24), storage (Article 25), the food business operator in Article 8(1), origin (Article 26), instructions (Article 27), alcohol (Article 28 and Annex XII) and the nutrition declaration (Articles 30 and 32, Annex V). The allergen names come from the 14 points of Annex II, with point 1 as replaced by Regulation (EU) No 78/2014. Distance selling comes from Article 14, language from Article 15 and font size from Article 13.
The page looks for words in what you paste. Pasted text loses bold and colour, so it can only see emphasis written as capitals or markup. It cannot tell whether an exemption applies. Read Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on EUR-Lex (check the consolidated version) and the guides on allergen labelling and the food business operator name and address.
Install EU Food Info Guard on the Shopify App Store
What this page is not
- Not legal advice and not a statement that your label or product does or does not comply.
- Not what EU Food Info Guard matches or checks; the app is what counts.
- Not a check of nutrition values, claims, font size or layout, and not a review of national rules.
- Not a data collector: text you paste stays in this browser tab. Nothing is sent or stored.
Related pages
- EU FIC food allergen labelling
- Food business operator name and address
- Nutrition declaration and net quantity
- Allergen in ingredients but not in the declared list
- EU Food Info Guard
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