2023-05-11 06:32:00
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INTERVIEW. In a report published on Thursday, 320 European scientists are calling for the Nutri-score to be displayed on food packaging.
Interview by Olivier Hertel
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L’display of the nutritional information logo affixed to the front of food packaging, the famous Nutri-score, was to be compulsory in Europe from 2023. In this month of May, this is still not the case. Strong pressure exerted on the European Commission by heavyweights in the food industry such as Ferrero, Lactalis, Coca-Cola, Mars, Mondelez, Kraft, but also by Italy, delayed the adoption of this measure. The fear of its pure and simple disappearance has even been mentioned since Claire Bury, the deputy director of food sustainability at the European Commission (video in English), said on September 30, about the logo, that she did not want not put on the table something that “polarizes the debate”, in particular between…
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