Set Minimum Nutrition Label size to support Type 1 Diabetes & Other Conditions

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Set a minimum mandatory size for nutritional information on food packaging so that it is easier to read, because people with health conditions and their carers rely upon them to stay alive.
This could be set as a percentage of the overall package size or a minimum font size even.

Currently the nutritional values are tiny in many cases and unreadable without a strong magnifying glass or resort to zoom on camera phone. This means anyone with poorer eyesight or visual impairments will struggle to read them. This is made worse for carers looking after people but also the people themselves, especially given that eyesight can be impacted severely by diabetes. There will also be many other conditions that require this information to be legible.

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

Food labels are already required to use a font with a minimum x-height of 1.2 millimetres (or 0.9mm if the largest surface area of packaging is less than 80cm squared): https://www.gov.uk/guidance/food-labelling-giving-food-information-to-consumers#labelling-pre-packed-food

We could accept a petition calling for the minimum size of text on food labels to be increased, if that's what you want to happen.

Timeline

8 Nov 2021	Petition opened for signatures
15 Nov 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Nov 2021

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