12 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the recent survey by a company (details supplied) of 17,000 consumers that found that 80% of respondents found traffic light labelling more comprehensible than guideline daily amount labelling; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that neither the recent Review of Food Labelling Legislation nor the EU’s Nutrition Labelling Review of Technical Issues considered the relative merits of traffic light labelling and GDA labelling; her views in view of the fact that there is no evidence that research has been conducted into this issue using funding by her Department on providing such funding and coordinating with the Department of Health and Children to commission such a study; if not, the reason for same; the other labelling research undertaken by Government Departments and agencies which she referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 20 February 2007 that has any bearing on the question of the relative merits of traffic light and GDA labelling; and if she will make a statement on the argument that introducing traffic light labelling here would negatively affect the production of Irish cheeses which are high in fat. [9073/07]

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12 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the recent survey by a company (details supplied) of 17,000 consumers that found that 80% of respondents found traffic light labelling more comprehensible than guideline daily amount labelling; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that neither the recent Review of Food Labelling Legislation nor the EU’s Nutrition Labelling Review of Technical Issues considered the relative merits of traffic light labelling and GDA labelling; her views in view of the fact that there is no evidence that research has been conducted into this issue using funding by her Department on providing such funding and coordinating with the Department of Health and Children to commission such a study; if not, the reason for same; the other labelling research undertaken by Government Departments and agencies which she referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 20 February 2007 that has any bearing on the question of the relative merits of traffic light and GDA labelling; and if she will make a statement on the argument that introducing traffic light labelling here would negatively affect the production of Irish cheeses which are high in fat. [9073/07]

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