date:Sep 27, 2012
The German confectionery association (BDSI) has argued that consumers are overloaded with confusing, contradictory nutrition information on product labels and further regulation is not the way forward.
At the political meeting Confectionery in Dialogue last week in Brussels, BDSI disputed calls from German NGOs to clamp down on advertising to children under 18 and introduce a traffic light labeling system similar to the UK.
The key issue was whether consumers needed more nutrition information