Calorie Labelling
The Department of Health is moving forward with plans to encourage foodservice outlets to display calorie information at point of choice and is seeking pledges from operators to voluntarily support its scheme with the aim of launching it in September 2011.
While the Association is generally supportive of providing information so that consumers can make reasoned choices, it has expressed some caution over the costs of the proposed scheme as well as the legal obligations that require operators not to mislead consumers. It has also urged the Department to provide the means for smaller businesses, without in-house technical support, to calculate nutritional information.
The current proposals, which are still being formulated, can be found here (Word Documents):
- Draft FN Pledges Under Discussion
- Draft Guidance Calorie Labelling (Final)
- OOH Monitoring and Evaluation FN4
If you have any comments/suggestions about these proposals, please contact BSA Director Jim Winship at jim@sandwich.org.uk