ROME - "The interministerial decree is being issued which introduces in our regulation the possibility of voluntarily informing the consumer about the content of energy, fat, sugar, salt with a" portion ", and not with 100 grams, food "featured on the shelves.
This was announced by the Minister of Agricultural and Food Policies Teresa Bellanova in a video message to the shareholders' meeting Origin Italia, with Qualivita.
On the labeling of agri-food products under discussion in Brussels, "our proposal with nutri inform - the minister specified - is based on information voluntarily provided by the operator of the food sector to the consumer through a battery system. We are absolutely against the nutriscore labeling system, I reiterated this in the EU to Commissioner Kyriakides as well as Commissioner Wojciechowski ".
In the positioning document that Italy presented, supported by the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Latvia and Romania, the fundamental principles for a future EU-wide harmonized package-front nutritional labeling scheme are stated.
In this context, underlined Bellanova in the message to the Origin Italia shareholders' meeting, which represents over 70 protection consortia, Italy is absolutely determined to support the exclusion of PDO and PGI labeling on the pack.
"We will not allow - he concluded - the debasement of products with their classification as harmful on the basis of a mathematical calculation studied at the table".
