Sentence examples for compulsory labelling from inspiring English sources

Generic polling finds 90% or more of Americans in favour of compulsory labelling.

THE campaign to stop compulsory labelling of genetically modified (GM) food in Washington broke state records for fund-raising.

And with strong support in some congressional quarters for compulsory labelling, it is hard to see the GMA getting its own way here.

The news comes after the European Parliament voted by 559 to 54 for more detailed, compulsory labelling on all halal and kosher meat.

But, points out Greg Jaffe of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group, in other countries compulsory labelling has tended to restrict consumers' choice; try finding GM products in European supermarkets.

In Washington state, heavy spending by biotech and food firms overcame a huge polling deficit to see off a proposal for the compulsory labelling of most genetically modified foods.

Transformers and large capacitors filled with PCBs can be easily identified by the compulsory label.

He pointed to Bloomberg's getting trans fats banned from restaurant foods in 2006, and advocacy for compulsory calorie labelling for chain restaurants, in 2008, as evidence of his success in tackling obesity – among the leading cause of deaths in the US.

Britain came close to adopting a traffic-light system of compulsory food labelling to grade the health impact of food products - but, as Jacques Peretti reports, opposition from within the food industry prevented it happening.

A mandate to improve compulsory food labels is unlikely any time soon.

This is a prelude to the planned introduction of compulsory carbon-labelling rules, possibly as soon as 2012, which will apply to imported goods as well as those made in France.