Justin Tomlinson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Tomlinson on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to standardise nutritional information in food and drink labelling.

Nicola Blackwood

The legislation on food labelling sets out the content, format and expression of nutrition information on food labels. It is implemented in England by the Food Information Regulations 2014. Nutrition labelling for most pre-packed food and drink will be mandatory from 13 December 2016.