Where to report falsely / misleadingly labeled food in shops?

scrotist

Aldi has a "Strawberry and Banana Smoothie" with apple juice as the first ingredient. They should mention apple juice prominently but they don't.

Tesco has a smoothie with "pomegranate, blueberry and Acai" but it has 0.6% Acai in it. They should not be allowed to mention Acai.

There's a lot of misleading crap like that in the shops.

Things like that.

Or am I being thick?

28064212

ASAI or the CCPC: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/advertising-and-promotions/advertising/

Although based on your two examples, I don't see your complaints going very far

finglashoop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356432/where-to-report-falsely-misleadingly-labeled-food-in-shops

Pretty sure apple juice is prominent in a lot of things. Flavourings added t

beachhead

ASAI will be a waste of time and CCPC not much better

NIMAN

Aldi sell milk which is proudly stated as Irish. Packaging has a tricolour and all.

If you check the dairy ID code, it's an NI dairy. Ok so technically it is irish milk, but it's not from Guaranteed Irish farms.

The J Stands for Jay

Apple juice is the main ingredient of most juices and smoothies

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122276999#Comment_122276999

I'm sure you're aware, but 'guaranteed Irish' is essentially a brand in and of itself. You can't just stick it on your product even if your product is Irish.

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122276999#Comment_122276999

The dairy industry is cross-border. Some of the milk processed in NI dairies will have been produced on farms in the Republic, and some of the milk processed by dairies in the Republic will have come from farms in NI.

"Irish milk" means what it says. There is no meaningful distinction that can be made between NI milk and RoI milk and, if anybody is marketing milk under either of those brands, that would be something to complain about.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356432/where-to-report-falsely-misleadingly-labeled-food-in-shops

Are you under the impression that the principal ingredients in, say, honey nut cornflakes are honey and nuts? They are not. Peanuts are the third ingredient by weight, after corn and sugar; honey is the sixth ingredient, after corn, sugar, peanuts, oligofructose syrup and molasses. Honey isn't even the major source of the sugar in honey nut cornflakes.

Processed foods are generally named not after the most voluminous ingredients, but after the ingredients which give them their characteristic flavour, or which distinguish them from other similar products — all flavours and varieties of cornflakes have a fair belt of sugar in them, even the plain ones, but only honey nut cornflakes get some of that sugar from honey; hence the name.

If this were not the case then most flavours of mixed fruit juices and smoothies would have to be marketed as apple.

GerardKeating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356432/where-to-report-falsely-misleadingly-labeled-food-in-shops

Neither of the examples for cite are false in anyway, and not sure if they would be considered misleading since (as you noticed) it's listed in the ingredients.

Some ingredients have stronger flavours that others, so the percentage by volume is not always relevant. Many many such products have a lot of apple juice, mainly to bulk it up, since its taste and flavour will be overpowered by the other ingredients.

Caranica

My biggest bugbear is being asked if I want butter on a sandwich. Yes I'd like butter but not whatever dodgy spread you are mislabeling as butter.

JVince

so wine gums should be called sugar gums and pringles should be called fat crackers (39% fat)

NorthCity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122276999#Comment_122276999

Lidl sell butter ' Irish Butter ' with a heart shaped tricolour on the front. Ingredients consist of milk from Ireland/UK. It can't be legal???

NorthCity

The packaging should include a Union Jack. Lidl Irish butter has a heart shaped tricolour on the front. Milk used is from Ireland/UK . Put a Union Jack on the front let the consumers decide if they want to contribute to the British economy over our own.

Peregrinus

If the UK milk is sourced from NI, there isn't a problem.

Since a lot of dairies have suppliers on both sides of the border, and since milk from different farms is of course mixed at the creamery, it's in fact quite difficult to ensure that you source your dairy products exclusively from farms in the 26 counties (if, for some reason, that is what you want to do). You'd need to screed your dairies carefully and buy only from dairies with no suppliers in NI. None of the food production companies have the remotest interest in doing this.