PREGNANT women would be warned of the dangers of drinking on every bottle of beer, wine and spirits in a plan to broaden food labelling laws.
First a government-appointed panel of legal, food and nutrition experts must determine if alcohol should be subjected to the same level of labelling scrutiny as other foods, a public hearing into the review heard yesterday.
Neal Blewett, chairman of the Food Labelling Review panel, said alcohol labelling presented the panel with several anomalies. ''At the moment alcohol is treated as a food but a distinct type of food,'' he said.
Labels must contain information on the alcoholic content and the number of standard drinks, but are exempt from nutritional information panels which include the amount of fat, sugar, protein and other nutrients in packaged foods. . . . . .
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