The UK’s Food Standards Agency is to draft best practice advice on vegetarian and vegan labelling that will include advisory definitions of these terms.

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The draft advice will be sent out for a full public consultation in the summer of 2005. 


“The Agency has been aware of consumer concerns relating to food being labelled as suitable for vegetarians and vegans, and held a stakeholder meeting to discuss vegetarian and vegan labelling on 12 October 2004,” the FSA said.


Notes of the meeting can be found here.

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