Taking steps to correct distortions created by the system nutrition labeling Νutriscore and concern the nutritional value of important products of the Mediterranean diet – and dozens of Greek foods, such as olive oil and honey – requested by the Commission the ND and EPP MEP, Maria Spyraki, with a relevant question.
The Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakidou, in response to Ms Spyraki’s question, states that the Commission “will draw up a proposal for harmonized mandatory nutrition labeling on the front of the packaging at EU level by the end of 2022” and thus “clearly implies that there is room for serious change in the food labeling system “, as noted in the relevant announcement of the MEP.
The algorithm-based Nutriscore system specifies the marking that can be placed on the front of the food packaging in order to classify the packaged foods according to their nutritional value. value. This system, so far, is neither mandatory nor fully harmonized throughout the EU.
However, the Nutriscore system is widely used in many countries. Specifically, “applies to Belgium, voluntarily in France, in Netherlands, in Germany, in Portugal, in Denmark and to Luxembourg, while it was adopted by the big “players” of the food market, such as Νestle and the Danone“, Is noted in the same announcement.
According to Nutriscore, the positive and negative rating of a food is established, the negative ones are subtracted from the positive grades and based on the system algorithm a food is ranked by A until the Ε with the corresponding marking and at the same time with corresponding color.
However, “due to the lack of criteria in the algorithm, the fact that receive low rating products of high nutritional value“, It is underlined.
Taking into account the relevant problems, the Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakidou, in her response to Maria Spyraki, underlined that “to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSAsystematic work is done on the selection of nutrients and other non-nutrient components of food for the preparation of nutrient profiles “and notes that” EFSA scientific advice will feed into the work of the (European) Commission on harmonized nutrition labeling on the front of the package».
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