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Breakfast Monday, 4 November, 2002, 06:10 GMT
Lean times for restaurants
Monty Python
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Restaurants and fast food outlets could be forced to list the calorie content of the meals they sell under new proposals by the Food Standards Agency.


Overweight people know exactly when they are fuelling the fat. Why waste more tax payers money on red tape nonsense?

Tom


The labels would enable customers to measure exactly how much fat, additives and sugar they consume, and is designed to tackle the nations escalating obesity problem.

Critics say its an example of unnecessary government interference.

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    So will this spoil our appetite ?

  • Breakfast's Jane O'Brien was live at the Grand Hotel Restaruant in Plymouth.

  • We also heard from Jo Lennard who was the Restaurant Director for the St Martin's Lane Hotel in London and is now working on the opening of Dave Stewart's new eating establishment which opens next year.


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