Labelling requirements for alcoholic beverages

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• Overview
• Common name
  • Geographical indications – Common name
  • Names of spirits – Distinctive products
  • Language requirements – Common name
• List of ingredients – Alcoholic beverages
• Food allergens, gluten and added sulphite labelling – Alcoholic beverages
• Nutrition labelling – Alcoholic beverages
• Alcohol by volume declaration
  • Manner of declaring – Alcohol by volume declaration
  • Location – Alcohol by volume declaration
  • Language – Alcohol by volume declaration
• Advertising – Alcoholic beverages
• Voluntary claims & statements – Alcoholic beverages
  • Use of the term "light"
  • Low alcohol
  • Vodka-flavoured claims
  • Age claims
  • Use of the term "dry"
  • Government warning on imported alcoholic beverages
• Product specific information for beer
  • Common name for beer
  • List of ingredients and food allergen, gluten and added sulphite labelling for beer
  • Use of the term "light" for beer
  • Gluten-free beer
• Product specific information for brandy
  • Country of origin for brandy
  • Age claims for brandy
• Product specific information for flavoured purified alcohol
  • Common name for flavoured purified alcohol
• Product specific information for gin
  • Age claims for gin
  • Use of the term "dry" for gin
• Product specific information for liqueur
  • Common name for liqueur
  • Use of the term "dry" for liqueur
  • Light liqueurs comparison statements (Lower alcohol claim)
  • Light liqueurs with non-nutritive sweetening ingredients (Reduced energy claim)
• Product specific information for rum
  • List of ingredients for rum
  • Country of origin - Caribbean rum
  • Age claims for rum
  • Use of the term "dry" for rum
  • Use of the term "light" for rum
• Product specific information for vodka
  • Vodka compositional requirements
  • Additional labelling requirements
  • Allergen-free claims and vodka
  • Use of the term "dry" for vodka
  • Vodka-flavoured claims on alcoholic beverages
• Product specific information for whisky
  • Age claims for whisky
  • Use of the term "dry" for whisky
  • Use of the term "light" for whisky
• Product specific information for wine
  • Common name for wine
  • Net quantity declaration for wine
  • Principal display surface for wine
  • Standardized container sizes for wine
  • Country of origin for wine
  • Use of the term "dry" for wine
  • Use of the term "light" for wine
  • Icewine
• Provincial and territorial liquor boards
• Definitions
  • Close proximity
  • Flavoured purified alcohol
  • Flavouring preparation
  • Material of agricultural origin
  • Other botanical substances
  • Residual sugars
  • Wine