Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Helen Southworth (Labour), on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 122 members in total.

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FOOD LABELLING

That this House is concerned by the dramatic rise in obesity and diet-related disease across the UK; recognises a major contributing factor to be excessive consumption of foods high in fat, sugar and salt; acknowledges the need for simple front of pack labelling with information about the levels of fat, sugar and salt in foods to enable consumers to make healthier choices; welcomes the Food Standards Agency's current evaluation of all front of pack labelling schemes to identify which system performs best to give consumers the information they need; and calls on food retailers and manufacturers to end the confusion caused by the proliferation of different schemes and to commit to adopting whichever single labelling approach is found by the Food Standards Agency to perform best for consumers.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2367 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Paul Burstow

Stephen Dorrell

Charlotte Atkins

David Leslie Taylor

James Plaskitt

Subjects

Consumers Diseases Food Obesity

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk