ITALY WINS SKIRMISH OVER UK TRAFFIC LIGHTS ROW
February 1st, 2014
Italy has won the latest skirmish in its continuing campaign against the UKs ‘traffic light’ labeling scheme that flags food as ‘more’ or ‘less’healthy by using red, yellow and green to denote levels of total fats, saturated fats, sugar and salt in 100 grams of product.Member state ministers meeting as the Council of the European Union (EU) have decided that the European Commission should examine if this undermines the principles of the functioning of the EU’s internal market.Italy claims that the UK’s ‘hybrid’ scheme mixing colour ...
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