Australia: Alcohol Warning Labels Overcome Industry Opposition
Posted on February 19, 2020 in Asia-Pacific, Australia, New ZealandAustralia and New Zealand will be implementing alcohol warning labels after finally overcoming alcohol industry opposition.
Late last year, the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) released a draft new label for alcohol bottles warning pregnant women to not consume alcohol.
Since the release of the label, Big Alcohol has been lobbying aggressively against it. Alcohol manufacturers made almost 100 submissions to FSANZ arguing against its proposed warning label design…