Labels take centre stage in UK obesity fight
By: Ben Cooper | 24 January 2008
The food industry will welcome the multi-stranded and inclusive approach taken by the UK government in its anti-obesity strategy, unveiled yesterday (23 January). But, Ben Cooper writes, the Government's insistence that differences among retailers and food producers over nutritional labelling are resolved could bring the debate over the issue to a head.
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The food industry will welcome the multi-stranded and inclusive approach taken by the UK government in its anti-obesity strategy, unveiled yesterday (23 January). But, Ben Cooper writes, the Government's insistence that differences among retailers and food producers over nutritional labelling are resolved could bring the debate over the issue to a head.
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