Voluntary labels on salt, sugar the only way to get plan moving quickly in Hong Kong, food panel chief Bernard Chan says

With Hong Kong set to roll out “front of package” food labels on salt and sugar content, the head of a government advisory committee has defended the decision to make the scheme voluntary. Bernard Chan said the scheme – which would cover just over 100 pre-packaged products for starters and was “readily understandable and nothing fancy” – would have taken years to pass through the legislature to make it mandatory.  “If we go straight and make it...