The London Daily News

15 June, 2010 09:29 (GMT +00:00)

Bakers in London face selling bread by weight not quantity

News Desk

Bakers in the capital could be forced to sell bread by weight under a proposed law that is being proposed by Brussels, that will require bakers to sell their products by the weight of each loaf, or croissant.

London MEP Syed Kamall has said today from Brussels:

"At a time when all businesses are under pressure to keep costs down, this directive will simply add to the overheads of bakers from small shops to big bakeries to supermarkets. These costs will be passed on to customers and put up the price of smaller loaves.

The Federation of Bakers, which represents the UK's largest baking companies, believes this will be both impractical and costly to implement in a country which has traditionally sold rolls and pastries by quantity rather than by weight.

Commenting on the proposed directive which will be voted on by the European Parliament on 16 June Syed Kamall MEP for London said:

"In my constituency of London alone, hundreds of thousands of pounds will be wasted bringing bakeries into compliance with this law which nobody asked for or voted for.

"I want bakeries to keep selling croissants, bread, hot cross buns by number rather than by weight and prevent this ridiculous directive becoming law."

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