The INCO regulation does not require fibre to be shown on labelling, unless a specific claim or advertising is made about the product. The declaration of minerals and trace elements remains optional.
Nutritional values
Ensuring food labelling compliance
through nutritional values
Nutritional labelling is an essential element of consumer information and a regulatory requirement for most prepackaged foodstuffs.
The European regulation known as “INCO” (for consumer INformation) now requires mandatory and uniform nutritional information. This nutritional declaration must be given per 100 g or ml of product:
- The energy value
- The fat content including saturated fatty acids
- The carbohydrates including sugars
- The protein and salt content
The European Commission publishes information on food legislation. Click here to view the information
EXPERTISE
Phytocontrol offers, within short turnaround times, accredited analyses
meeting the requirements of the INCO regulation:
- Carbohydrates including sugars, and sugar profile (Fructose, Glucose, Lactose, Maltose, Sucrose) by ion chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection.
- Protein Kjeldahl or DUMAS method
- Salt by ICP-MS
- Total lipids, saturated fatty acids and fatty acid profile including trans fats: saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega 3, omega 6 and omega 9
- Total dietary fibre by manual or automatic enzymatic digestion
- Starch by titrimetry
- Minerals and trace elements: multi-mineral analysis by ICP/MS (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and sodium).
- Ash and moisture are also analysed for the calculation of nutritional values
- Vitamins by LC-MS/MS
Phytocontrol’s Food Physico-Chemistry unit supports food industry professionals with nutritional value analyses combining reliability, responsiveness and precision. Carried out according to methods compliant with the European INCO regulation, they allow you to ensure nutritional labelling in line with regulations.
QUALITY
Our accreditations
Phytocontrol is accredited by COFRAC for nutritional value analyses for human food and animal feed.
Testimonial
How do we support Laura, R&D Manager of a ready-meal company,
in validating her nutritional labelling?
I am R&D Manager and I must ensure that every product placed on the market complies with regulatory requirements for nutritional labelling. We needed a laboratory capable of providing accurate and fast results to validate our labelling. Our collaboration with Phytocontrol is a real asset, both for our analytical controls and for the development of our new products.
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Phytocontrol supports food industry professionals in analysing nutritional values to ensure the compliance of their products’ nutritional labelling.
