The European Parliament has voted to require country-of-origin labeling on poultry and red meat. Beef and seafood are already required to be labeled. The new labeling rules would indicate the country of origin on all poultry and meat as well as fish, dairy produce, fruit and vegetables. Meat labels would also indicate exactly where the animal was raised.
The proposed legislation also may require information on nutritional content such as amounts of fat, sugar or salt as a percentage of the Guideline Daily Amounts. Consumer groups had pushed hard for red-yellow-green stoplight graphics that would rate the products' nutritional content at a glance. That effort failed.
The EU's 27 government ministers will consider requirements next. It could take up to five years before the labels would appear.
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