RUSSIA PLOTS LAUNCH OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOOD LABELLING SYSTEM
May 1st, 2018
Food products with colour-coded packaging, informing the consumer about the sugar, salt and fat content will soon appear on the shelves of Russian retail stores, according to draft voluntary regulations written by the national consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor.
Its proposal would instruct food manufacturers to marking meat, fish, bread, dairy and other food products with ‘traffic lights’ symbols indicating their intrinsic healthiness. Salt, sugar, trans fat and fatty acid levels would be indicated on packaging in red, yellow and green ...
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