UK food industry debate nutrional labelling

The UK food industry’s debate on nutritional labelling has taken its latest twist, with Sainsbury’s suspending its membership of the British Retail Consortium (BRC), online press "confectionerynews.com" reports. Sainsbury’s decision followed the publication by the UK s food regulator of a uniform nutritional labelling scheme for packaged products.



The industry body disagrees with the Food Standards Agency s (FSA) system despite support from consumer groups. The dispute has caused confusion amongst consumers who are now faced with the prospect of competing systems.
Groups such as the British Heart Foundation have called for the FSA s system to be made compulsory, as they believe self-regulation does not work.
Sainsbury s said it left the consortium over comments it perceives as an endorsement of a system based on guideline daily amounts (GDA) as used by rival supermarket Tesco.