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PARIS - Europe is taking longer than planned to concoct an EU-wide food-labelling system after a colour-coded scheme created in France did not go down well in culinary rival Italy.
France’s Nutri-Score system was initially seen as the front-runner to be used across the 27-nation EU. They said it was the only label that had undergone peer-reviews showing its “effectiveness and relevance to consumers and public health”.The Commission’s deputy director-general of food sustainability, Ms Claire Bury, said in September that it would not put on the table something that “polarises the debates”.Italy, Cyprus, Greece, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary opposed the French system.
While the European Commission may still use Nutri-Score for inspiration in devising a system, it is also looking at other labels. Italy’s main agriculture association, Coldiretti, has said that Nutri-Score ends up “excluding healthy and natural foods that have been at the table for centuries in favour of artificial products”.
But 875 brands representing 60 per cent of the food market in France are using Nutri-Score, the system’s founder, nutritionist Mr Serge Hercberg told AFP.
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