Under the Food Regulations, all ingredients and additives used in prepacked food must be declared in descending order of the proportion by weight in which they are present. In general, you may follow the steps below when declaring the statement of ingredients for your products.

Step 1: List down all ingredients used in food products in their exact identity and arrange them in descending order by percent weight of finished products.

Step 2: Identify compound ingredients used. Find out what the components of the compound ingredients by checking with suppliers or any documents provided by suppliers such as product specification sheet.

Step 3: Find out if any shorter forms (e.g. generic terms under the First Schedule of the Food Regulations, INS, E numbers) can be used.
Food additives may be declared using their exact chemical name, INS/E numbers. We have posted the list of permitted food additives with their respective INS numbers on the Food Additives Search Tool for your reference. You may also consider the use of the permitted generic terms listed under the First Schedule for a category of food ingredient/additives. Step 4: Check if the allergen foods been declared Food additives can be declared using permitted generic terms under the First Schedule of the Food Regulations. In the absence of a permitted generic term, the food additives must be declared using its exact chemical name or its corresponding INS/E number.