Patuanelli and Coldiretti-Italy, EU's alliance against Nutriscore

Published 2021년 4월 7일

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Italy's leading agricultural organization, Coldiretti, is part of an alliance against the Nutriscore label, a French food scoring system adopted in the UK and other countries. The label is seen as misleading and discriminatory, favoring food with synthetic ingredients and potentially excluding natural, healthy foods. It also undermines the value of the Made in Italy designation of origin, according to Coldiretti. The organization is working with other countries to oppose the label, fearing it could promote junk food and disadvantage traditional Italian food products.

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The European alliance against the Nutriscore label is doing well, endangering the historic record of over 46.1 billion Made in Italy agri-food exports in 2020 with a 1.7% increase achieved in the middle of the Covid pandemic, in contrast to the others productive sectors. This is what the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini says in reference to the statements of the Minister of Agriculture Stefano Patuanelli who in the question time to the Chamber announced that Italy is working with countries that have not yet expressed a formal opinion with respect to the Nutriscore, like Poland, Slovakia, Croatia and Spain "to find that blocking minority that will serve us as a last resort to stop this serious danger for the Italian agri-food system". The French nutriscore labeling such as the traffic light one adopted in Great Britain influences the consumer, with a nice green, to choose products with synthetic ingredients and at low cost, passing them off as healthier. A misleading, ...

Source: Agricolae