In blocking the proposal, the department said the Supreme Court had made clear that agreements setting maximum prices were just as illegal as agreements that set minimum ones.
At the end of a further meeting held on September 17 19, states made progress toward setting maximum allowable pollution inputs and subsidiary national targets.
"This is why Labour will stand up to vested interests and take decisive action to give each child a healthier start in life including setting maximum limits on sugar, fat and salt in food that is marketed substantially to children".
They may be accompanied by benchmarks—eg, setting maximum carbon emissions for every tonne of steel produced with free allowances given only to firms that meet the standard (and then only within a sector-wide cap).
The case developed as a result of the Illinois legislature's responding in 1871 to pressure from the National Grange, an association of farmers, by setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products.
Earlier, Burnham said voluntary agreements with the food industry were not working, and that Labour was looking at legal limits setting maximum permitted levels of fat, sugar and salt in food aimed at youngsters, which could include a 30% cap on sugar in cereals.
