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EU brings in compulsory food labelling to curb obesity

2008-01-31T13:03:00

The European Union yesterday moved to impose standard nutritional information on food labelling across 27 countries.The rules are an attempt to counter the epidemic of obesity in Europe, but disappointed some UK health charities by not making the 'traffic light' system mandatory.

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