INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – NEW EUROPEAN COMMISSION MAY PUSH HARMONISATION OF SUGAR FOOD LABELLING
October 1st, 2019
THE INCOMING European Commission may seek to further harmonise European Union (EU) food labelling rules on sugar content. This pledge comes from the nominee for new EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, a Cypriot parliamentarian, whose EU role includes being responsible for food safety and standards. In her response to questions from the European Parliament, she said would push to harmonise food labelling rules, including on nutrition, for which more transparency is needed. She was “concerned that over one third of foods [sold in the EU] bearing nutrition ...
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