Italy Takes Issue with UK Traffic-light Food Labels
Italy has reacted with anger to a UK food labelling system that aims to highlight sugar, salt and fat content.
October 21/London/The Guardian -- Italy has reacted with anger to a UK food labelling system that aims to highlight sugar, salt and fat content, warning that it risks penalizing top-quality traditional delicacies of the Mediterranean while doing little to help tackle Britain's obesity problem.
The "traffic-light" system, announced in June, has been praised by UK health campaigners but has proved rather more indigestible in Rome, where one food scientist declared that if the British did not want to exacerbate their "already terrible eating habits," they should consider embracing a diet that has been proved to work: the Mediterranean one.