Rejected petition: Standardise food package portion sizes to prevent deceptive nutrition labelling
Rejected on
Amend the Food Information Regulations 2014 to legally define and standardise "portion" and "serving" sizes based on typical single-sitting consumer eating habits. Parliament must mandate that any product reasonably consumed by one person in a single sitting must be labelled as one single serving.
Currently, food manufacturers can arbitrarily declare serving counts on packaging. This allows single-serving items (like individual salad kits) to be legally labelled as "serves 2" or "serves 4."This loophole creates a deceptive "health halo." By dividing the total product contents into unrealistic fragments, brands artificially slash the calories, fat, sugar, and salt displayed on front-of-pack traffic light labels. It also masks shrinkflation, leaving consumers feeling misled and ripped off.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about the size of food package portion sizes are a matter for individual businesses, not the UK Government or Parliament.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.