EU food label up for grabs as final decision approaches
Several years in the making, the battle over an EU-wide food label is entering its final stages. According to EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides, food products sold across the bloc will soon be marked with a standardised, pan-European Front-of-Package (FOP) label.
Up until now, the France-backed Nutri-Score had been considered one of the candidates. However, following the recent Future of Food Summit, it has become clear that the Commission is unlikely to recommend this system as the go-to label. Indeed, during the summit, the deputy director for food sustainability at the Commission’s DG SANTE, Claire Bury, left little room for doubt, saying that «it won’t be Nutri-Score» and that the Commission is «looking at a range of different evaluative schemes», and weighing «the advantages of each.»