The Food Labelling (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of the principal Regulations

12.  In Schedule 7 there shall be inserted after the entry concerning the description “dealcoholised” and the conditions applying thereto the following entry:–

In column 1In column 2
(Words and descriptions)(Conditions)
The description “low alcohol” or any other word or description which implies that the drink being described is low in alcoholShall not be applied to any alcoholic drink unless–

(a)the drink has an alcoholic strength by volume of not more than 1.2 per cent, and

(b)the drink is marked or labelled with an indication of its maximum alcoholic strength (in one of the forms specified in regulation 31(1) immediately preceded by the words “not more than”)..