GREECE JOINS THE MOVE TOWARDS MANDATORY ORIGIN LABELLING
September 1st, 2017
GREECE is planning to make country-of-origin labelling on milk mandatory from 2018, Agriculture Minister Evangelos Apostolou said on 7 September. The labelling regulation bill will be discussed in the Greek parliament this week.
With this move, Greece joins a growing trend of European Union (EU) member states, notably France last year, to introduce these labelling rules for milk. Meanwhile, Italy wants to introduce mandatory origin labelling for durum wheat, rice and tomato products.
European Commission public health and food safety spokesperson, Anca Paduraru, ...
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