March 16/Brussels, Belgium/Press Association Mediapoint -- MEPs have demanded a crackdown on misleading food labels claiming that foreign-reared meat is "British."
The European Parliament's public health committee voted for tighter rules obliging manufacturers to state clearly where the animals used in meat products were raised. Rules for processing food in the U.K. currently allow companies to label meat as British, even though it could have come from an animal that was reared and slaughtered abroad.