Food Labelling

EDM number 254 in 1996-97, proposed by Stephen Day on 26/11/1996.

That this House is concerned that food manufacturers, when specifying that their product contains vegetable fat, do not have to specify from what vegetable the fat came, and as a consequence therefore could put at risk that 3 per cent. of the population who suffer from a nut allergy; notes that the European Commission is currently considering whether to require the listing of certain allergens whenever they are used in pre-packaged food; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to bring forward its own proposals to protect people with such allergies as a matter of urgency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.