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When researchers from The Netherlands evaluated consumer understanding of allergy information on food labels, less than half of people found the messaging clear.

The study, published in journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy, involved two separate experiments with a total of 96 consumers with food allergies and 105 without.

The Food and Drug Administration will research and propose a standardized front-of-package labeling system to help consumers more readily understand nutrition information, the White House said Tuesday.

The proposed update to the existing setup, in which nutritional information is provided primarily on the backs of labels, is part of the Biden administration's effort to help consumers make healthy choices and “to shift our health care system away from just treating disease to preventing it,” a senior administration official told reporters on a call.

They will be replaced by a code that M&S staff can use to check freshness and quality.

Tesco, Morrisons and Co-op are among supermarkets that have scrapped "use by" dates on some of their products.

Waste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) said 70% of the UK's food waste is binned in homes, mounting up to 4.5 million tonnes of edible food a year.