Health groups to battle food firms on nutrition labels

CONSUMER and health groups are pitted against the processed food industry in a battle about how to illustrate food packaging with information on what is in our food.

‘Traffic light’-style labels would show at a glance how much fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt are contined in 100 grams of foods such as pizza, sandwiches or cereal.

But the multi-billion euro food industry would prefer the less colourful Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) system, where you are told the percentage of the nutrient per portion.