Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Some of the manufacturers are concerned about having to create a multiplicity of labels, with storerooms full of batches of labels for this and other markets.

I am uncertain about another matter. The warning will not take up one third of the space on bottles. That would have been over the top. If we were to go to that extreme, we would be better off just telling people that the products being sold were poison and should not be consumed at all. We need to impose a health warning so that every person consuming the product knows that it has certain side effects. Food irradiation has similar effects, but we have no warnings on our fruit, vegetables and so on yet.

How will this system work in practice and will it achieve the intended outcome? Will the warning label also make reference to the calorie content?