Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

I thank the Minister of State. I am not sure how many of these regulations have been implemented. The Minister of State said 19 had been addressed but that might be slightly different to implementing them.

It is welcome that food labelling is broadly co-ordinated within one organisation because it was all over the shop prior to this. However, many issues remain outstanding such as a full listing of allergy-causing ingredients, foods purchased loose and misleading or ambiguous nutritional claims. What progress has been made on these issues?

The issue of health claims attributed to foods must be dealt with. What is considered to be a healthy food? How does one interpret terms such as low fat, less than 1% fat and so on? What exactly do these terms mean and what progress has been made?

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