The rights and wrongs of nutrition labelling

摘要

It appears that the confectionery industry generally prefers a common EU-wide system to national variants, such as the UK's voluntary traffic lights labelling system that can cause unwanted difficulty for labelling. Nutritional labelling on chocolate, biscuits and sweets is present on most of these products already, said Laurence Vicca, communications and project manager of the Association of Chocolate, Biscuits and Confectionery Industries of Europe (Caobisco). She was speaking as the deadline to note nutrition declarations on energy value, fat, saturates, carbohydrates, sugars, protein and salt on food labels under the EU's Food Information to Consumers (FIC) regulation (1169/2011) draws nearer.