Japan is preparing to introduce carbon footprint labelling for food products.
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Tokyo has announced it will be setting up talks with the country’s major food retailers this June.
According to sources, just-food understands that supermarket and convenience store operators will begin testing the carbon labelling system on a limited number of products later this year.
Full-scale implementation, starting with own-brand products, is expected in 2009. By this time the government said it will have drawn up guidelines to govern the labelling system.
“We are making voluntary research into this area right now,” Kazuko Itakura, a spokeswoman for 7-Eleven store operator Seven & I, told just-food. “We are now making detailed plans on how exactly we will use such labels in the future.”
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By GlobalDataJapan has been criticised for being almost as laggardly as the US in attitudes to CO2 reduction, despite hosting this year’s G8 global powers meeting with a “green” agenda and being the site for the signing of the Kyoto protocol.
