EU: The front against the nutriscore widens

Published 2021년 11월 10일

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The article highlights concerns about the potential negative impacts of the nutriscore labeling system, similar to the traffic light labeling used in the UK, on healthy and natural food products such as extra virgin olive oil, Grana Padano, Parmigiano Reggiano, and Parma ham. Critics argue that this system is misleading, discriminatory, and incomplete, favoring artificial foods over natural ones. These concerns have led olive oil producers and cheese producers in France and Spain to oppose the system, and other countries like the Czech Republic, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, and Hungary have supported a harmonized system different from nutriscore. Italy is also taking steps to strengthen a coalition supporting this alternative system.
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The French nutriscore labeling as with the traffic light one adopted in Great Britain risks promoting junk foods with sweeteners instead of sugar and disadvantaging elixir of life such as extra virgin olive oil considered the symbol of the Mediterranean diet, but also specialties such as Grana Padano, Parmigiano Reggiano and Parma ham whose simple recipes certainly cannot be changed. This is what the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini affirms in appreciating the position taken by the Minister of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Stefano Patuanelli, at the Question Time in the Chamber on the initiatives aimed at avoiding the adoption of the Nutri-score labeling system, at in order to protect consumers and Made in Italy products. It is in fact - underlines Coldiretti - a misleading, discriminatory and incomplete system that ends up paradoxically excluding from the diet healthy and natural foods that have been present on the tables for centuries to favor artificial ...
Source: Coldiretti

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