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A new EU directive - oh dear!

Rumours have reached us that under new draft legislation, to come into force as early as next year, Europe will outlaw the sale of groceries by number.

Gone will be a dozen eggs; 12 rashers of bacon; 6 bread rolls - as a description. This will potentially affect hundreds of grocery lines.

Under the current regulations each country is allowed an exemption to sell by number but under the new proposed EU Food Labelling Regulations, this dispensation will go and all groceries would have to be sold by weight alone.

A second reading of the proposals is still outstanding and the food industry is lobbying hard for ‘common sense to prevail'.