SPIRITS LABELLING EU SIMPLIFICATION PROPOSAL – VODKA LABELLING
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EUROPEAN Commission official has told just-drinks.com that Brussels needed to overcome a political battle with vodka producing countries over ingredients, before it was able to formally table reforms to European Union (EU) spirit labelling rules yesterday (WED 21/12). "The proposal was already drafted in April, but member states blocked it because of vodka," he said. Estonia, Finland, Poland and Sweden had wanted to restrict approved ingredients to grain, potato, sugar beat and molasses. But this angered drinks manufacturers such as ...
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