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Our Right to Know

Our Right to Know

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A bottle of wine can contain anywhere between 0 and 15 teaspoons of sugar.

But there is no legal requirement to display this information on alcohol labels, making it impossible for consumers to know what’s in their drink.

This simply isn’t right.

And it’s not just sugar that’s missing from labels. Unlike food and non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol product labels are not required to show any information on calories, nutritional values, or ingredients. Furthermore – despite alcohol consumption being linked to seven types of cancers and more than 200 other diseases – alcohol labels don’t need to include ...

A bottle of wine can contain anywhere between 0 and 15 teaspoons of sugar.

But there is no legal requirement to display this information on alcohol labels, making it impossible for consumers to know what’s in their drink.

This simply isn’t right.

And it’s not just sugar that’s missing from labels. Unlike food and non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol product labels are not required to show any information on calories, nutritional values, or ingredients. Furthermore – despite alcohol consumption being linked to seven types of cancers and more than 200 other diseases – alcohol labels don’t need to include health warnings or the weekly drinking guidelines.  

We have a right to know what’s in the products we buy.

The Government committed to having a consultation on including calorie information on alcohol product labelling, but we are still waiting for this to be published almost two years later. Information on sugar content, ingredients and cancer warnings is not included in these plans.

Will you email your MP to tell them why we need better alcohol labelling?

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