Empowering Consumers to Make Free Choices – European Resource Bank – Stockholm

I chaired and spoke in the international roundtable “Empowering Consumers – Public Health Policies, Food labels, and the war against fat, salt, and sugar“ hosting Per Frank, Nordic Nutrition and Public Affairs Manager Nestlé, andRalf Scheider, European Journalist.

The European Resource Bank, which is the largest annual conference of think tanks in Europe, gathers representatives from dozens of European Liberal think tanks, scholars, policy experts, elected officials, and other parties interested in the debate over strategies and problems posed to the European economies and the future of individual liberty in Europe.

Video recording of the roundtable will be available soon.

Empowering Consumers to Make Free Choices

Competere has always highlighted the shortcomings of labels like Nutriscore. It’s an arbitrary and misleading labeling system that limits the freedom of consumers, harms local economies and free trade. Thus by not promoting an educational approach, it steers consumers’ choices according to incomprehensible and non-transparent parameters. This comes with an extremely simplistic, ideological, and anti-scientific approach. It proves to be totally inadequate to grasp the importance of nutrition for our health and to be the unique labeling system in Europe. 

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At the same time, Nutriscore black-lists foods that are part of local traditions and scientifically considered as healthy – such as those contained in the Mediterranean Diet – posing a real threat to local communities and sectors that rely on food production.

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