Label requirements · France

France label requirements — check your label

What a label sold in France must carry for food and drinks, other consumer goods, medical devices, item by item, each with the law it comes from. Paste your label below: Drict shows what it found, on which line, and what is missing.

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Drict looks for the items each label law names, by key words. It is not legal advice and does not say a label is compliant: read the official text, and ask the authority or a specialist before you print.

Food and drinks — what a France label must show

6 mandatory · 6 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Net quantity / volume (Quantité nette, Poids net)
  • Ingredients (Ingrédients)
  • Use-by: “À consommer de préférence avant…” (DDM) or “À consommer jusqu’au…” (DLC)
  • Business name and address (Fabriqué / Distribué / Importé par…)
  • Lot number (Lot, L…)
  • Nutrition declaration: énergie (kJ / kcal), matières grasses, dont acides gras saturés, glucides, dont sucres, protéines, sel (INCO Article 30 — except packs under 25 cm², single-ingredient products…)

Only if it applies

  • Storage conditions (À conserver…)
  • Origin (Pays d’origine, Fabriqué en…) — required when leaving it out would mislead
  • Allergens (Annex II) in bold within the ingredients — add “Contient / Peut contenir” if needed
  • Alcohol content above 1.2% (Titre alcoométrique, % vol.)
  • Directions (Mode d’emploi, Conseils d’utilisation)
  • Sorting information: Triman logo + Info-tri (AGEC law)

Language: No French text found — goods sold in France must be labelled in French (loi Toubon, Article 2).

Check by eye: Product name: check it yourself — in French, the “dénomination de vente” and not only the brand; allergens in bold within the ingredients; best-before date, lot and net quantity where they are easy to see (INCO Articles 9, 13, 21).

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Other consumer goods — what a France label must show

1 mandatory · 5 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Business name and address (Fabriqué / Distribué / Importé par…)

Only if it applies

  • Net quantity / volume (Quantité nette, Poids net)
  • Origin (Pays d’origine, Fabriqué en…) — required when leaving it out would mislead
  • Directions (Mode d’emploi, Conseils d’utilisation)
  • Warning, precautions (Attention, Précautions d’emploi)
  • Sorting information: Triman logo + Info-tri (AGEC law)

Language: No French text found — goods sold in France must be labelled in French (loi Toubon, Article 2).

Check by eye: Product name: check it yourself — in French, the “dénomination de vente” and not only the brand; allergens in bold within the ingredients; best-before date, lot and net quantity where they are easy to see (INCO Articles 9, 13, 21).

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Medical devices — what a France label must show

5 mandatory · 6 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Manufacturer’s name and registered address — MDR Annex I 23.2(c)
  • Lot number (LOT) or serial number (SN) — MDR Annex I 23.2(g)
  • UDI carrier — MDR Annex I 23.2(h), Art. 27
  • Use-by date, or the date of manufacture when there is none — MDR Annex I 23.2(i)(j)
  • The indication that it is a medical device (“MD”) — MDR Annex I 23.2(q)

Only if it applies

  • Authorised representative in the EU (“EC REP”), if the manufacturer is outside the Union — MDR Annex I 23.2(d)
  • Importer’s name and address, for an imported device — MDR Art. 13(3)
  • Sterile state and method of sterilisation — MDR Annex I 23.2(l)
  • Special storage or handling conditions — MDR Annex I 23.2(k)
  • Warnings and precautions to bring to the user’s attention — MDR Annex I 23.2(m)
  • Single use (“Do not re-use”) — MDR Annex I 23.2(n)

Language: No French found — devices sold in France are labelled in French (MDR Art. 10(11), loi n° 94-665).

Check by eye: The device’s name and what it is for (23.2(a)(b)); the CE marking, with the notified body’s four-digit number where one was involved (Art. 20); ISO 15223-1 symbols (factory, LOT, SN, hourglass, MD, EC REP, STERILE, do not re-use) are pictures — Drict reads only words, so a symbol used alone shows as not found.

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