Catégorie : Papers in English

A report from the italian program "Report" on RAI3 concerning the battle of Nutri-Score in Italy, broadcast on May 15, 2023. This documentary highlights the opposition of food lobbies to the evidence-based Nutriscore nutrition label, the fallacious arguments of the different lobbies, the pseudo-alternative Nutrinform they  support, the conflicts of interests concerning Nutrinform, the politicians'… Lire la suite A report from the italian program « Report » on RAI3 concerning the battle of Nutri-Score in Italy,

The European Commission has committed, as part of its “From Farm to Fork” strategy, to propose a mandatory EU-wide harmonized front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme applicable throughout the EU by 2023. However, strong lobbying groups are heavily mobilized to prevent the EU-wide introduction of the Nutri-Score, or to delay its adoption, or to choose a useless… Lire la suite A group of 320 scientists and health professionals released a comprehensive scientific report explaining “Why the European Commission must choose the Nutri-Score nutrition label – a public health tool based on rigorous scientific evidence – as the harmonized mandatory nutrition labelfor Europe”  

After the adoption in July 2022 of the Nutri-Score’s evolutions for general foods (1), the european scientific committee in charge of the update of Nutri-Score (composed of independant esperts from the 7 countries that adopted Nutri-Score) recommended in its second report (2), released in march 2023, some modifications of the algorithm specific to beverages based… Lire la suite Report of the European Scientific Committee in charge of updating the Nutri-Score: changes to the algorithm for beverages 

The European Public Health Association "EUPHA" (bringing together over 39,000 public health professionals), issued a statement urging the European Commission to implement a harmonised, EU-wide, mandatory, effective nutrition label urgently. In its statement, EUPHA considers Nutri-Score to be the best and only possible option for a rapid implementation of a harmonised EU-wide nutrition label. The… Lire la suite The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) supports for Nutri-Score adoption in Europe

On 26 December 2022, three journalists of the newspaper "Le Monde", Mathilde Gérard, Allan Kaval (correspondent in Rome) and Virginie Malingre (from the European office in Brussels) published a well-documented investigation about the European battle of the Nutri-Score, the strategies of the lobbies and the political pressures of the Italian government.https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2022/12/27/the-battle-over-europe-s-nutrition-label_6009244_156.htmlText below (english version): Le… Lire la suite An investigation by the newspaper « Le Monde » on anti Nutri-Score lobbying: « The battle over Europe’s nutrition label »