Alcohol industry lobbied EU to resist health warnings on drinks

In 2016, Ireland informed the European Commission of its intention to introduce health warnings on alcoholic beverages, such as cancer warnings. Picture: Johnny Green/PA Wire

Ireland’s proposal to introduce health warnings on alcoholic beverages have been met with an “extensive lobbying campaign from the alcohol industry” at an EU level to try and undermine it.

That is according to a report by IOGT-NTO and Movendi International, two Swedish NGOs, published on the Health Research Board’s National Drugs Library on Thursday.