EU rules are also laid down for food intended for particular nutritional uses, such as dietetic and infant food, food for sports people or foods for special medicinal purposes. The labels of
these products must carry more detailed information on their composition and/or more comprehensive instructions of use than conventional foods. Finally, many categories of food products,such as beef, fish, fruit and vegetables,and chocolate, have been regulated at the
EU level in order to harmonise quality or composition standards. These regulations contain product-specific labelling rules to ensure that more precise information which consumers may be seeking is available to them. Beef labels, for example,must indicate where the animal was born,
reared, slaughtered and cut – a response to consumer concerns linked to BSE. All of these specific rules apply to the products in question in addition to the horizontal labelling rules set out in the general framework legislation.