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The Gulf Standard GSO 9\/2007 is the current legislation regulating the labeling of food commodities in the UAE. According to the current regulatory framework, there are no restrictions on imports of food, except for some specific restrictions that apply mainly to products such as pork and alcohol (which can be imported only by authorized distributors). Since 2008 the local government has established that the official language for the labeling of food products is Arabic. Therefore, pursuant to the above legislation, a series of mandatory information must be written on the labels of products intended for import, among which the list of ingredients in Arabic (the Arabic text can be printed on a sticker, it needn\u2019t be part of the original packaging) as well as in English or Italian, or both, depending on the origin of the product in question.<\/p>\n