Scottish cookie company to adopt traffic light labelling

Paterson Arran claims to be the first manufacturer in Scotland to use the Food Standard Agency's traffic light labelling system on its products.

 
The company will use the labels on its new range of organic, low fat cookies.
The FSA's voluntary system uses red, amber and green colour coding to
provide information on foods that have high, medium or low amounts of saturated
fats, sugars and salts.
The move will be welcomed by the FSA, which has struggled to convince many
manufacturers to adopt the system since proposing it in 2004.
Other companies who have adopted the scheme include Waitrose, Sainsbury's, the Co-op,
M&S, McCain, the New Covent Garden Food Company and Moy Park, according to
the FSA website.
In March, Danone, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestle and PepsiCo and retailers Tesco and
Morrisons joined together to launch a £4m campaign to promote guideline
daily amount (GDA) labels.