Will the new food labelling scheme get the green light?

KEY

Question 1

a)   True Health experts are hoping that yet another "traffic light" labelling scheme in supermarkets  will stop Britain's slump toward obesity.

b)   False a survey last week showing that 41pc of women and 30pc of men would leave a product on the shelf if it had a red traffic light.

c)  False The Food Standards Agency first proposed traffic-light food labelling in 2008, but supermarkets and food companies objected.

d)   True The new system is called a hybrid scheme, which means that it will contain elements of all of the different pack labelling schemes we are used to.

Question 2

a)       It makes a difference/successful in changing behaviour/41 percent of women and 30 percent of men leave red traffic light product on shelf.

b)      The hybrid system includes elements of all the pack labelling schemes/the amount of sugar, salt and fat are shown as a percentage daily amount/ words high, medium and low are written by each category.

Question 3

a)       gist

b)       survey

c)       mishmash

Question 4

a)       If you ever looked at the labels on the food you eat, you would probably already get the general gist.

b)       “ The products are judged on 100g sizes rather than recommended portions, which confuses customers.”, said Kellogg’s and Tesco.

c)       A survey was produced last week by the Cooperative.