Food law regulates the access to food markets by setting up requirements on the composition of foods, the design of the packaging, and the information to be provided thereon. Food law regulations wall off markets; in particular, small and medium sized companies often may be put off offering their products abroad by regulations and approval requirements. In order to reduce the existing trade barriers with the European Union, Switzerland several years ago decided to adapt the Swiss food law regulations to the European laws. The so called “autonomous adaptation” of the European regulations led to numerous revisions of existing Swiss food laws in the past 15 years.