ITALY PUSHES FOR MORE MANDATORY ORIGIN LABELLING
January 7th, 2015
ONE benefit – for consumers at least – with European Union (EU) legislation, is that it often allows national governments to gold plate rules based on such EU guidance. Whether that is a good idea for food and drink manufacturers of course is another question, and such a debate is now happening in Italy. Its focus is how Italy responds to the European Union (EU)’s 2011 (1169/2011) regulation on food information to consumers (FIC), in effect since December 13 (2014). It aims to improve food label transparency and legibility. However the new regime has ...
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