Label requirements · Hong Kong

Hong Kong label requirements — check your label

What a label sold in Hong Kong must carry for food and drinks, 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 Hong Kong label must show

5 mandatory · 4 only if it applies

Mandatory

  • Ingredients in descending order of weight (配料 · Ingredients — Cap. 132W, Schedule 3)
  • Date mark: “此日期前最佳 / Best before” or “此日期或之前食用 / Use by” with the date
  • Count, weight or volume (淨重、容量 · Net weight / volume)
  • Name and address of the manufacturer or packer (製造商 / 包裝商 · Manufacturer / packer)
  • “1+7” nutrition label: energy, protein, carbohydrates, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, sugars (Cap. 132W — unless granted the small volume exemption)

Only if it applies

  • If it has gluten cereals, crustacea, egg, fish, peanut, soy, milk, tree nuts, sulphite ≥ 10 ppm: named in the ingredients (致敏物質)
  • Special storage conditions (貯存方式 · Storage)
  • Instructions for use (使用說明 · Instructions for use)
  • Origin, when only the distributor is named (原產地 · Country of origin)

Language: No Chinese or English found — Hong Kong labels are in English or Chinese or both (Cap. 132W).

Check by eye: Food name: check it yourself — with both English and Chinese, the name and the ingredients are in both; highly perishable food says “此日期或之前食用 / Use by”.

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