The government’s laws have revealed in the Queen’s Speech that big hospitality firms will now be bound to add a calorie label on their food in a bid to tackle obesity. This will include restaurants, cafes and pubs.
“The new laws will make it compulsory for hospitality businesses with more than 250 employees to calorie label food in a bid to tackle obesity,” the BBC reported.
“It risks a backlash from the sector which has been one of the hardest hit by forced closures during the coronavirus pandemic, although the government has ditched plans to include drink like pints of beer in pubs,” it further said.
The Queen’s Speech briefly mentioned this and read: “The government will introduce secondary legislation to require large out-of-home sector businesses with 250 or more employees to calorie label the food they sell.”
The health and care bill is meanwhile going to empower NHS England to ban junk food adverts online and before the 9pm TV watershed.
In an introduction to the speech, Johnson said: “We must harness the ingenuity and resolve that has been revealed in the struggle against Covid-19 and use it to create a stronger, healthier and more prosperous nation. We have been given an historic opportunity to change things for the better, level up opportunities across the whole of the United Kingdom, and address the problems that have constrained us far too often before.”
