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Industry wins food label feud

The health department would shelve plans to label certain foodstuffs as non-essential for a healthy diet in the upcoming regulations on food labelling and advertising, it has announced, succumbing to pressure from the food industry.

By Slindile Khanyile, The Star

2 Apr 2008

Antoinette Booyzen, the assistant director for regulatory nutrition, said that the department was investigating other options, such as a suitable nutrient profiling model for South Africa, to address the industry's concern.

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