Altroconsumo: enough with the tricks on the label

"On the shelves of supermarkets there are chips with vitamins: a paradox. Enough with the tricks on the label, it is necessary to fix the nutritional profiles by law. Franca Braga, head of nutrition and health for Altroconsumo, strongly reiterates what was repeated several times in various contexts on the first morning of the Festival of Food Journalism: clear, rigorous and scientific information on food must start from the labels.

"Italians are particularly interested in food. We talk about it always and everywhere, for us it is tradition, culture, sociality. But this also means that we are more sensitive and worried when it comes to food ”. This hypersensitivity, explains Braga, leads to being more permeable towards fake news and improvised expert advice. For this reason, and here politics should intervene, more scientific and wild marketing limitations are necessary, especially for products intended for children (in Italy the 21% are overweight and the 9% obese).

"We need to focus our attention on the real problems, instead of chasing unfounded alarms such as carcinogenic meat or the demonization of palm oil", concluded the representative of Altroconsumo.