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July 2020

Self-evidently misleading trade name "baby water"

28.07.2020·misleading commercial practice Austrian Food Code product labelling Food Information Regulation· 0 Comments

Bottled "natural mineral water sourced from the ***-rock spring", marketed under the trade name "Babywasser" (Baby water), may not be described by the terms "high quality water" and "boiling not required" as this is self-evidently misleading.