Traffic light labelling could be ‘enforced’
Food companies may soon be forced to adopt the traffic light food labelling system regardless of whether they use another form of labelling currently.
Ministers may become more aggressive in their fight against obesity and insist of the use of this colour-coded system, the Telegraph reports.
According to the paper, the European Union – which has overall control of food labelling issues – is working with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Department of Health to bring in the measures.
However, a number of other companies use the guideline daily amount food labelling method, such as supermarket giant Tesco.
A spokesperson for Tesco stated: “We know this scheme is changing eating habits for the better and we have real concerns about adopting an unproven FSA scheme which is only used on a narrow range of products.”
The Department of Health recently called for food companies to come to a consensus on a single food labelling method.
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