This summer saw the launch of the Food
Labelling Agenda-campaigning for all food and food products to be clearly,
comprehensively and meaningfully labelled.
FLAG is a consumer pressure group campaigning for the right
to know what is really in our food, and was started by the Guild of Health
Writers and the Guild of Food Writers-over 400 journalists in all. FLAG says
food labelling is often inadequate, confusing and inaccurate, and many products
are not labelled at all. FLAG wants proper labelling so that consumers can make
an informed choice.
Food labelling affects animal feeds, pesticides and other
agrochemicals, genetically engineered foods, irradiated products, additives and
many others.
FLAG aims to get a million names on a petition supporting its aims by the
beginning of 1998.
FLAG, PO Box 105, Hampton, Middlesex,
TW12 3TL, Tel/Fax 0181 941 2977.
[This
article first appeared in Pesticides News No. 37,
September 1997, page 19]