The European Parliament wants consumers to be more aware of the nutritional quality of food and are introducing the nutriscore. This color tool is meant to help consumers when grocery shopping. Green MEPs and civil society groups want to make this label mandatory throughout the EU.
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The European Parliament wants consumers to be more aware of the nutritional quality of food and are introducing nutriscore.
This color tool is meant to help consumers when grocery shopping. Green MEPs and civil society groups want to make this label mandatory throughout the European Union in order for the scheme to become fully effective. A Citizens initiative launched a few weeks ago aims to convince the Commission to spread nutriscore across the EU.
"There is a growing interest that is coming to the fore and the Commission is obliged by the 2011 regulations to introduce a review process for nutritional food value, so why not propose the introduction of a mandatory nutri-score at European level? It would mean harmonizing so that all producers are actually subject to the same rules. And that's good for competition, the internal market and it's good for the consumers," says Monique Goyens from European Consumers organisation BEUC.
Some Member States have already adopted nutri-score According to studies, it is successful and producers, distributors and consumers are convinced that this is the way forward.
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