In a speech to the think tank Reform earlier today, Andrew Lansley outlined a few potential measures to tackle obesity in the UK. You can find a good summary of those measures here, and we’ll have more about them on Coffee House later. In the meantime, a controversy is brewing over one of Lansley’s suggestions – namely, that the ‘traffic light’ labelling currently used to flag up fat, saturates, sugar and salt on food packaging should be replaced with clearer information about ‘guideline daily amounts’.
Why so controversial? Well, it’s less to do with the suggestion itself – although there are issues about whether ditching traffic light labelling would be a helpful move – and more to do with the working group that Lansley’s established to evaluate that suggestion. You see, that working group will be headed by Dave Lewis, the chairman of Unilever’s operation in the UK.
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