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What can my label say about where it's from?

Answer the questions and see every wording the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016 allows for your food, with the mark drawn. No sign-up, and nothing you enter is kept.

What kind of food is it? Kind of food

Non-priority food is: seasonings, confectionery, biscuits and snack food, bottled water, soft drinks and sports drinks, tea and coffee, alcoholic beverages (s9). Everything else is priority food.

Where does it come from?

Grown in AustraliaEvery significant ingredient is Australian and virtually all the processing happened here (s8). Produced in AustraliaThe same test as grown (s8). Made in AustraliaIt was last substantially transformed here (s8). Whether your process is one is your decision. Packed in AustraliaPacked here, but not grown, produced or made here. ImportedNot grown, produced, made or packed in Australia.

The ingredients

Each ingredient's ingoing weight, and how much of it is Australian: 100 for Australian, 0 for imported, in between for an ingredient made from both (s11). Added water counts as coming from where it was collected (s12(3)).

The pack Use a standard mark instead of a statement (optional for this food) The package is smaller than 100 cm² (the mark's words go in a box, without the logo or bar chart; s14(3))

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Labelwise applies the Information Standard as recorded on our rules page and explained in the country of origin guide. It isn't legal advice: you decide where your food was grown, produced, made or packed, and what goes on the label.

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