Bahrain risks being left behind as the only Gulf country not enforcing mandatory calorie labelling on menus, with MPs and municipal leaders requesting the law finally be applied from January 1.
The regulation was first approved in 2018 but never implemented. Since then, all other GCC states – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman – have rolled out the requirement, leaving Bahrain as the sole exception despite being the first to propose it.
Parliament’s Strategic Thinking Bloc has now submitted a proposal calling for the rules to take effect at the start of the new year, with businesses given until December 2025 to comply.
