Label discrepancies, chemicals linked to cancer found in cookies, pastries: Hong Kong consumer body
date:Jan 16, 2019
contained nutrition labels, 29 were found to have discrepancies in their declared and actual values.

The sugar content in nine samples, sodium content in 14 samples, saturated fatty acid content in seven samples and trans fatty acid content in eight samples were found to have exceeded the declared values by more than 20 percent.

In the most serious case, the sugar content in a cookie product was 22.6g/100g, far exceeding the declared value of 7.3g/100g. This flouts standards set by the Centre
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