FACUA requests the Health Ministry to control the lactose-free labelling

FACUA-Consumers in Action calls on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equal Opportunity, to regulate the lactose-free products labelling, as well as those products containing small traces of the ingredient. After numerous consumers’ requests, the association noted a distinctive lack of legislation on the matter. Confused users reported that in some cases products labelled as lactose-free resulted containing a certain proportion of this component.

The current legislation on food labelling only requires manufacturers to include the list of ingredients, but unlike gluten-free products, it does not regulate the mention lactose-free. The Royal Decree 1334/1999, dated on July the 31^st, on the general standard for food labelling, pre