EP adopt report on food labelling
17 June 2010
Members of the European Parliament yesterday voted for the report on food labelling with over 100 amendments tabled to it. Of those amendments that attracted the most controversy, MEPs voted for the amendment on the mandatory declaration of country of origin and voted against the amendment introducing an EU traffic lights system and an amendment that would allow the development of national schemes on additional forms of expression of the nutrition declaration. Following a tie vote on the amendment for the deletion of the provision of nutrient profiles– a system that determines which foods can make claims based on their nutrient content – in the EU's Claims Regulation, this amendment was rejected.
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