A survey on artificially-sweetenedproducts found that some firms in theUK were ignoring legal requirements -that is to state, "with sweeteners" - onthe packaging of the product. The survey was conducted by the FoodCommission, a body incharge of qualitycontrol of food items in the UK. "Whilewe found some companies hide theinformation in small print against thespirit of the law, we actually found thatseveral companies ignored the law completely," said Tim Lobstein, co-directorof the Food Commission.
It is compulsory for the manufacturers to clearly mention that sweetenershave been added to the product underthe Sweeteners in Food Regulations,which became a law in 1997. All theproducts in the survey had been put onthe market after that date.