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24/10/2012
Consistent Food Labeling To Be Introduced
The government has announced that a new and consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling will be introduced in the UK next year.
A combination of guideline daily amounts, colour coding and "high, medium or low" wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and sugar and how many calories are in each product.
The scheme will however be voluntary, but ministers are confident they have the food industry on board.
Talks will take place later this week over the exact design of the labels.
The issue of clear labeling has been under discussion for the past decade with campaigners seeing it as a way of tackling the rising rates of obesity.
But the introduction of a consistent system has proved difficult, and instead a range of different labels has gradually been introduced over the years.
Some retailers and manufactures have used "traffic-light" labelling, in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green, while others use guideline daily amounts - or GDAs - which give the percentage of recommended intake. Some use both.
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A combination of guideline daily amounts, colour coding and "high, medium or low" wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and sugar and how many calories are in each product.
The scheme will however be voluntary, but ministers are confident they have the food industry on board.
Talks will take place later this week over the exact design of the labels.
The issue of clear labeling has been under discussion for the past decade with campaigners seeing it as a way of tackling the rising rates of obesity.
But the introduction of a consistent system has proved difficult, and instead a range of different labels has gradually been introduced over the years.
Some retailers and manufactures have used "traffic-light" labelling, in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green, while others use guideline daily amounts - or GDAs - which give the percentage of recommended intake. Some use both.
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