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July 27, 2011
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A bacon fan demonstrates the strength of their allegiance

The reputation of journalism has taken a bit of a battering of late but this hasn’t stopped the 5pm blog from breaking all the rules in order to bring our readers the latest from the frontline of bacon developments.

Not that we have needed to hack any phones to find this tasty titbit. A quick scan of the Telegraph’s website was sufficient to reveal that new EU proposals mean that the amount of water which manufacturers are allowed to add to bacon without telling us could be halved by 2015.

If the proposals come into force, bacon which contains more than 5% added water would have to say ‘bacon with added water’ somewhere on the packaging.

OK, so it’s not up there with the repeal of slavery or the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man but tastier bacon is not to be sniffed at.