Health Care

Food Legislation

Laws and regulations concerned with industrial processing and marketing of foods and beverages.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Laws and regulations concerned with industrial processing and marketing of foods and beverages.

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Synonyms

6 entry terms
  • Food Laws
  • Legislation, Food
  • Food Law
  • Food Legislations
  • Law, Food
  • Laws, Food

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify country or state

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History Note

79; FOOD AND DRUG LAWS was see under LEGISLATION, DRUG 1968-78

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Previous Indexing

  • Legislation, Drug (1975-1978)

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N03w.706.615w.412

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NLM Classification

WA 697

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Food Legislation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007881. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007881
  2. Food Legislation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16661688