#2026/103Northern Ireland updates fruit content rules for jelly products
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The rules raise the minimum fruit content required for jelly and extra jelly products sold in Northern Ireland. Manufacturers will need to use higher amounts of fruit for several product types if they want to keep using these regulated names after 30 June 2026. Products already lawfully placed on the market or labelled before that date can continue to be sold until existing stocks run out. The change mainly affects jam and jelly producers, food label teams, retailers, and importers supplying Northern Ireland.
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Key Changes
- Raises minimum fruit quantities for regulated jelly products in Northern Ireland
- Raises minimum fruit quantities for regulated extra jelly products
- Allows products lawfully marketed or labelled before 30 June 2026 to be sold until stocks are exhausted
Obligations
What this law requires
From 30 June 2026, jelly products sold in Northern Ireland under the regulated product name must use the amended minimum fruit content amounts in Schedule 3 Part 4: 350, 180, 230, 80, or 450 grams per 1,000 grams of finished product, depending on the relevant fruit category.
From 30 June 2026, extra jelly products sold in Northern Ireland under the regulated product name must use the amended minimum fruit content amounts in Schedule 3 Part 5: 450, 280, 290, 100, or 500 grams per 1,000 grams of finished product, depending on the relevant fruit category.
Food businesses may continue marketing jelly or extra jelly products that were lawfully placed on the market or labelled before 30 June 2026 under the previous 2018 rules, but only until those existing stocks are exhausted.
Food labelling teams must ensure that products labelled on or after 30 June 2026 use the regulated names for jelly or extra jelly only where the product satisfies the amended fruit-content requirements.