EU PREPACKAGING SIZES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AMENDMENTS, BREAD, TEA, SPREADABLE FATS
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has added pre-packed bread, spreadable fats and tea to the list of food and drink products that will retain set pre-packed sizes within the European Union (EU). This changes a proposed directive from the European Commission that had originally called for these to remain for only wines, soluble coffee, white sugar and most products sold in aerosols. The parliament's ruling plenary session also backed its agriculture committee's proposals for retaining set pack sizes for drinking milk, butter, ground or unground roasted ...
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