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 “About 15 percent of our children and young people are overweight,
about 17 billion euros ($8.5 billion) of healthcare costs are
generated annually by diet-related illnesses,” Julia Kloeckner told
a food industry conference in Berlin.
Kloeckner took office in the new German government in March, with
the coalition agreement committing to a strategy to reduce
consumption of sugar, fat and salt.
She called on Germany’s food industry to make its own concrete
proposals on how to achieve this in the near future.
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The existing voluntary labeling of food content should be improved,
removing sometimes confusing statements about small portions that in
turn have small levels of unhealthy content, she said.
But Germany will not introduce a "traffic light" system of red,
yellow and green codes for healthy and unhealthy food, she said. She
regarded this as oversimplified.
(Reporting by Hans-Edzard Busemann, writing by Michael Hogan;
editing by Dale Hudson)
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