Manufacturers are being made to wait even longer to find out whether they will be able to use a number of buzz words in trying to sell their products. Terms such as ‘no added salt’ and ‘low-Gi’ may be banned by the EU, but manufacturers will now have to wait another year for a decision.
A whole group of widely used nutritional phrases, used primarily to sell products, have been in a state of legal limbo as EU regulators attempt to figure out whether they should allow the terms onto food packaging.
Technically the claims are already illegal in the EU, however no action appears to have been taken to prevent their use thus far. UK trading officers are advising manufacturers to err on the side of caution at this point in time as they are unsure which terms will be included in the eventual annex.