Govt: Compulsory food labelling 'would take far longer'  The
Government has unveiled a new standard food labelling system,
but it remains voluntary and firms that do not use it will not
be named and shamed.  So why doesn't the Government make it
compulsory?  Health minister Anna Soubry told me: "If we were to
legislate, it would take far longer and it would get tied up".
Read: 60% of all food sold in UK will carry new labels   New
food labelling system  A new front-of-pack food labelling scheme
is to be introduced. The voluntary system,, which will cover
just over 60% of foods, will involve traffic light colour coding
and nutritional information on each product.