HC Deb 11 December 1975 vol 902 cc301-2W
40. Mrs. Joyce Butler

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he expects to introduce regulations to ensure informative labelling of foods containing textured vegetable and other non-meat or synthetic proteins.

Mr. Strang

The food labelling law already requires food to be labelled informatively, and prohibits false or misleading descriptions to be applied to it. We are considering extensive representations about the Food Standards Committee Report on Novel Protein Foods before deciding whether, and to what extent, the law needs to be extended so as to deal specifically with these foods.

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