The Hindu Business Line : The labelling

Singapore’s Sale of Food Act makes it mandatory for reconstituted or recombined milk to be explicitly labelled as ‘reconstituted milk’ or ‘recombined milk’.

Further, the word ‘reconstituted’ or ‘recombined’ has to be in letters “at least as large” as the letters of the word ‘milk’, as per Regulation 98 (3). Likewise, Hong Kong’s Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) Regulations requires that every container containing reconstituted milk “shall be clearly and legibly marked”. Moreover, the two words have to be in English capital lettering and Chinese characters “of equal size and prominence”.

Since October 2005, China has also introduced mandatory labelling of reconstituted milk, as opposed to the normal pasteurised milk sold by dairies (which are labelled ‘pure’ or ‘pasteurised’ milk) and the raw milk from farms (termed as ‘fresh’ milk).

Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also have similar labelling norms in place.

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