Federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor rolled out proposals Friday for new packaging labels for foods high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium — proposals that exempt some products, including milk. Products are to be labelled according to the amount of sugar, sodium or saturated fat per serving. Salt, sugar, honey and maple syrup — products with naturally high levels of sugar or sodium — will be exempt to avoid redundancy. Health Canada has released four proposed designs for a new front-of-package label for food and beverage packaging. The decision to include packaging labels was praised by several medical organizations, while others said it did not go far enough.

Source: CBC News February 09, 2018 17:54 UTC