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Mongolia label requirements for packaging

Mongolia sets the label of packaged food in its own law, not in a regional union’s regulation. Article 12 of the Law «On ensuring the safety of food products» (Хүнсний бүтээгдэхүүний аюулгүй байдлыг хангах тухай, adopted 20 December 2012) lists what every label states; the national standard MNS 6648:2016, based on the Codex general standard and in force since January 2018, adds the detail and the nutrition declaration. Mongolian packs are written in Cyrillic Mongolian; the traditional script (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ) appears more and more on gift and heritage packs as a design element.

Checked: 27 October 2026

Mandatory items

The label: Article 12

Article 12.4 lists what a food label carries: the name of the product; the manufacturer’s name and address; the quantity or number of pieces and the batch number; the year, month and day of manufacture; the shelf life or use-by date; the storage conditions; the nutritional value, ingredients and composition; how to use it; side effects and contraindications.

Article 12.5 adds, on the label or an accompanying sheet: the purpose, composition and use of food for special diets; how to finish preparing a semi-finished product; and the symbols used in Mongolia and internationally for food additives, organic food and products of genetically modified organisms.

Article 12.7 counts a label as wrong when it says something false, gives the product another food’s name, copies another product’s pack, leaves out an item of 12.4, writes the special-diet information in a language other than Mongolian, cannot be read or has an unreadable date, or hides that the food was treated with ionising radiation.

The language of the label

Article 12.6 asks the label of imported food to be in Mongolian, English or Russian. Food made in Mongolia is labelled in Mongolian, and the information for special diets is always in Mongolian (12.7.5). The Law «On the Mongolian language» (2015) asks business and commerce to be conducted in Mongolian (Article 6.1).

A draft amendment published on the Parliament’s law forum in 2025 would extend Articles 12.4 and 12.5 to every imported label, require the foreign text to be translated accurately into Mongolian on the label, and allow labels in paper or electronic form. When this page was checked the text in force on legalinfo.mn still had the 2012 wording; lay out imported products with a Mongolian sticker anyway — importers and inspectors expect it.

Nutrition: MNS 6648:2016

The national labelling standard MNS 6648:2016 asks for energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt, and any nutrient a nutrition or health claim mentions, in a table per 100 g or 100 ml. Health claims need scientific grounds accepted by the health authority.

A voluntary front-of-pack guideline adopted by the Minister of Health in 2017 colours energy, saturated fat, sugar and salt per serving as high, medium or low (a traffic light) against Mongolian reference intakes.

Who checks it

The cabinet member in charge of food sets the detailed labelling rules, the health authority those for special diets (Article 17), and the state inspection body controls labels on the market and at the border (Articles 6 and 18). Producers and sellers answer for the labels of both the outer and the retail pack (12.8).

Laying it out in Drint

1. Drint has no Mongolia label kit yet and does not check these rules. Lay the label on the back panel with Insert → Product label or text blocks.
2. Paste the client’s Mongolian text as it is — Drint does not translate. Every Drint font of the world group draws Ө and Ү (Noto Sans, PT Sans, PT Serif); some older Cyrillic fonts lack them and show empty boxes.
3. For a line in the traditional script choose Noto Sans Mongolian: the letters join and take their forms as you type; turn the text 90° clockwise to stand it as a column.
4. Insert → Nutrition table builds a per-100 g table; edit it to energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt.
5. Check in Export still finds text near the cut, small text, low-resolution pictures and ink problems.

Lay out the label in Drint

Questions

A summary written to design packs, not legal advice. Before printing, check the current text of the Law on ensuring the safety of food products on legalinfo.mn, the current edition of MNS 6648 with the Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology, and the product’s documents with your client.