VIDEO. Ham, sausage and nitrites: why butchers attack the Yuka application

Yuka is on the butcher's block.

The application is the subject of three legal summons, in particular of the Fict, the lobby of butchers.

After having already suffered a first setback before the commercial court.

For Julie Chapon, the manager of Yuka,: “Financially, it could prove to be complicated for us.

We are being asked for a million euros in damages, knowing that last year, our net profit amounted to only ... 20,000 euros ”.

Yuka, what is it? The application, which claims 20 million users worldwide, can scan food products and "translate", according to its criteria, the list of ingredients mentioned on the labels. Founded by Julie Chapon, Yuka has had tremendous success, and currently claims more than 20 million users worldwide. So much so that supermarkets and manufacturers have had to review the formulas of hundreds of products on the shelves, removing a large number of additives.

On Yuka, products are classified with a score from 0 to 100 according to their manufacture and ingredients.

The deli meats made using nitrites received the worst scores on the application - “they are classified in red,” says Julie Chapon.

In addition, the application referred, before the court decision, to a petition, launched by Yuka (with the League against cancer and Foodwatch), as well as a reference to an unfavorable opinion of the WHO concerning the use of these products used for the preservation of cold meats.

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"If this information is subjective and is not based on scientific data validated by the scientific community, that becomes unacceptable", defends Bernard Vallat, President of the FICT.

"Let us not forget that the WHO has classified charcuterie as a category 1 carcinogen for humans, protests Guillaume Coudray, specialist in the subject, author of the book" Cochonneries, how charcuterie has become a poison? "

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Watch our video on the fight between Yuka and the butchers above.