Food labelling has always been a contentious issue here in the Netherlands. To be quite honest I'm not current on all the arguments or discussions, but I do know new labels have appeared on our food here in the last several months. In the past I've heard things off and on about how food manufactures didn't want a 'stop light' system of labelling, because they didn't want any food clearly labelled as 'unhealthy'. Supposedly food manufacturers were to be absolutely forbidden from making even indirect health claims about their products. Apparently as well as in the Netherlands there have been disputes between different countries as well. I also don't see labelling on all foods, so I'm not sure where it's mandatory or not. Anyone reading this in other European countries see the same labelling where you are? Does anyone know if we have a standard system yet or not? As far as I can tell when I look at our new food labels is the food manufactures must have totally won the fight. The reality
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