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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11472

21 January 2016
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) food safety
Parliament rejects draft rules that would authorise too much sugar in baby food

Brussels, 20/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - “The health of babies comes first”, the European Parliament said in Strasbourg on Wednesday 20 January, when it rejected proposed European rules concerning the specific requirements for the composition and information applicable to cereal-based preparations and baby food.

The reason for this is that the authorised sugar content would be far higher than that recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The MEPs rejected the proposals by 393...

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