According to recent reports, it has been claimed that the Gillard Government is likely to pass the much-talked-upon traffic light food labelling scheme later this week in parliament.

Amid a prevalent obesity crisis which is growing severe with every passing day, health experts deem that today’s kids might reach such a dilemmatic condition that they might even fail to outlive their parents. This is despite the fact that recommendations regarding how to contest these issues are varied far and wide.

In this regard, there are many people who are soliciting food manufacturers to have increased sense of accountability regarding the health of the products manufactured by them, by using salt, chemicals and fat in proper proportion and by using fresh ingredients as much as needed.

In case the traffic light labelling bill is sanctioned by the Government, it is extremely feasible that the packaging sector will be impacted by it, since the designs will be mainly influenced by the mandatory aspect of packaging traffic light labelling.

On the same front, Choice, the consumer watchdog has been urging for obligatory “front-of-pack traffic light labelling” for the major portion of the year, with the deep intent of solving all the varied health issues prevailing all over Australia.

At present, one out of every three people in Australia are living with conditions of overweight and almost one out of six people are medically obese. However, the Government might not be passing the traffic light scheme precisely, but in fact will unquestionably devise something very similar to it, where relevant information is displayed in a glance for users.

While expressing his opinion in this regard, Kate Carnell, the Chief Executive of AFGC said: “Traffic light labels categorize foods as good and bad – but all foods can form part of a balanced diet”.