Food Legislation

The following is a comprehensive list of food legislation in Ireland. It provides a reference and guide to the various Acts, Regulations and Orders made at national level as well as those Directives and Regulations made at EU level.

• Aquaculture-Bivalves molluscs 
• Contamination of Foodstuff 
• Eggs 
• Fish and Fishery Products 
• Flavourings 
• Food Additives 
• Food Enzymes 
• Food Fortification 
• Food Hygiene 
• Food Products with Compositional Requirements 
• Food Products 
• Food Standards 
• Food Supplements 
• Foods For Particular Nutritional Uses (Parnuts) 
• Foodstuffs with Specific Restrictions 
• Game 
• Fruit and Vegetables 
• General Product Safety 
• General Principles of Food Law 
• Genetically Modified Organisms (Gmos) 
• Imports and exports 
• International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs 

• Labelling, Presentation and Advertising of Foodstuffs 
• Manufacturing And Processing Methods 
• Materials and Articles Intended to Come into Contact with Foodstuffs 
• Meat - Fresh Meat 
• Meat - Meat Products 
• Meat - Minced Meat, Meat Preparations and Mechanically Separated Meat 
• Meat - Poultrymeat 
• Milk and milk products 
• Novel Foods And Ingredients 
• Official Control Of Foodstuffs 
• Organic foodstuffs 
• Pesticides residues in foodstuffs 
• Veterinary Medicines, Animal Remedies, Control Of Illegal Substances and Poisons 
•  Water (including bottled water) 
• Zoonoses 

A hard copy ‘Compendium of Food Law in Ireland’ is available by emailing info@fsai.ie or by calling 1890 33 66 77.

Last reviewed: 7/2/2013