Federal Act
on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles
(Foodstuffs Act, FSA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late fur­ther in­dic­a­tions, in par­tic­u­lar with re­gard to:

a.

stor­age life;

b.

meth­od of stor­age;

c.

ori­gin of the raw ma­ter­i­als;

d.

meth­od of pro­duc­tion;

e.

meth­od of pre­par­a­tion;

f.

spe­cif­ic ef­fects;

g.

spe­cif­ic dangers;

h.

nu­tri­tion­al value.

² It may is­sue reg­u­la­tions on how busi­nesses that sup­ply pre­pared meals to con­sumers must la­bel such meals on their menus.

³ It may is­sue reg­u­la­tions on la­belling to pro­tect the health of per­sons ex­posed to spe­cif­ic health risks.

⁴ It shall reg­u­late:

a.

the ad­miss­ib­il­ity of nu­tri­tion and health claims;

b.

the la­belling of food­stuffs to which sub­stances that are con­sidered es­sen­tial for life or physiolo­gic­ally use­ful have been ad­ded.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late that sci­entif­ic data and in­form­a­tion used to jus­ti­fy health claims may not be used for a cer­tain peri­od to jus­ti­fy the same health claims for a dif­fer­ent product.

⁶ These reg­u­la­tions should not lead to a dis­pro­por­tion­ate ad­di­tion­al ad­min­is­trat­ive bur­den on busi­nesses.