Great news from EU parliament

Great news!!!!

"The European Union is poised to scrap compulsory “best before” labels on coffee, rice, dry pasta, hard cheeses, jams and pickles to help reduce the estimated 100 million tons of food wasted across Europe each year."

This is exactly what we are fighting for during the last three years!

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You can read about it on many web news:

But the UK government aren’t backing it at the moment, despite saying they’re open to a dialogue. A spokesman said:

‘We believe the connection between these labels and food waste requires further investigation to ensure the removal of date marks doesn’t have the opposite effect to that intended.’

We can show that!!!!! Let's win this battle!

New Zealand is already following the example!

The New Zealand Herald

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