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UK Supermarkets Boycott Traffic Light SystemPosted Mar 11th 2006 11:52AM by Andrew BarrowFiled under: British Isles, Science, Business, Trends, Stores & Shopping
Hailed in some quarters, and with me, as an unnecessary 'nanny-state' imposition the planned introduction of a
traffic-light system on food packaging will not be taken up by Tesco and Morrisons, two of the UK's largest supermarket
chains. The UK's Food Standards Agency has been planning for months to
introduce the nationwide scheme as an
easy way for consumers to check if food is healthy or harmful. I mean how difficult is it to know that chocolate coated
hobnobs ain't that good for you without having to stamp the packet with a red circle? Tesco also raised concerns that
things like apples - with high sugar content - would also have a red circle. While other supermarkets such
as Waitrose are (or were) planning to comply with the voluntary scheme many food producers such as Kraft Foods, Danone,
Kellogg's , Pepsi and Nestle were not.
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