With the origin of the foods country required for Food labelling, the World Health organisation will be ruling on whether the requirement that the “country of origin” is a breach of International trade agreements as alleged by Mexico & Canada.

The protests are based on the effect on sales based on all agricultural products being required to have there country of origin.

I think it it testiment to the fact that sales have been significantly reduced as experienced by Mexico in their Bovine industry that such laws must remain in place and not be undermined by the political process.

Given the proliferation of GM based food as well, those countries who use GM (genetical modified) based agriculture need to be clearly stated on the packaging, similarly countries that have a record of using chemicals in there products such as China with melamine in their baby food products.

Fortunately at the moment Food Standards Australia require the country of origin to be stated.

It’s a said day when politics starts to determine the level of transperancy in the food labelling laws.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under News.

Tags: Government Policy, Politics

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