The Regulation Overkill: Food Information I. Introduction „Overkill“, the word captioning this article, is a term from the cold war; it describes a nuclear power’s capacity to destroy an enemy more than once1. To shoot a mouse with a ballistic missile would be an illustrative example. Has European food law reached the overkill stage? A closer look at the planned Regulation on the provision of food information to consumers (2008/0028 COD – hereinafter