The Food we Eat

As part of her role on the European Parliament's Public Health Committee, Linda has taken a leading role in the debate about improving people's diets and reducing obesity.

Click on the links below to find out more. Press release - on the Written Declaration seeking "the elimination of trans fatty acids from food products", 23rd January 2007 Press release - Commission drops legal challenge to the Danish trans fats ban, 22nd March 2007 Press release - Sign up to ban trans fats!, 15th April 2008 Press release - Backing vote on food additives linked to hyperactivity in children, 6th May 2008 Beating obesity, in Union - article for The Parliament magazine, October 2006 Why high food standards are important for the EU now - article for the European Voice, 8th June 2006 Press release - on new food labelling rules, 16th May 2006