UK issues new guidance on Labelling of food from illegal West Bank settlement

Three reason why should be labeled? First, food labeling is not only used to help customer to know their healthy food to consume, but also it is as a conditional in European Union Law ( a marketing law in UK). From Wikipedia, i have found there were some conditionals for food labeling, they were Name, Ingredients, Nutritional Information, Medicinal or Nutritional Claims, Date Tagging, Storage Condition, Business Name and Address, Place of Origin, Instruction for Use, Presentation. Lot mark or Batch Code, Sectioning, Standard Specification, and Done additives. Unfortunately West Bank Products did not completed one of this conditional, that was place of origin. West Bank Products was the name for products which were coming from two country, that were Palestinian and Israeli which export their products to UK. Now, the problem were From the article, when the British government recommend such food be labeled 'Palestinian produce', while that produced by Israeli settlers in the territory be labeled ' Israeli settlement produce', and also in another paragraph "West Bank" produce, making no distinction between Israeli and Palestinians, but Israeli official said it would boycott Israeli goods, i think that was not logical reason as we know that the food Labellings has good purposes. And then the second, Making distinction by labeling, I think it was good idea, so by this way the customers could know where were Palestinian products and where were not. The third, that actually customer wanted to know where are coming from the products they bought and they bought the products because of they wanted aid the Palestinian economy not Israeli.



Original title "UK issues new guidance on labeling of food from illegal West Bank settlements"


Reference:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/10/guidance-labelling-israeli-settlements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/food_labeling_regulations