"Food label cooperation meeting" of co-sponsoring of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry held on March 24 the study committee, and decided the outline concerning the notation of the origin and the raw material labeling of the processed food.
Both authorities concretely make food a list by five classifications of the object item of the display duty. Authorities will also examine the rule to promote an arbitrary display of the enterprise about the food not made a duty.
The consumer groups had requested the improvement of the display over the processed food whole beforehand.
JCPRESS schedules to publish details in the issue on the Japan consumer newspaper, in Japanese, April 1.