Yuka won her case at the Paris Court of Appeal on Wednesday regarding her draft anti-nitrite petition. The nutritional application was first condemned in first instance for "denigration of prejudice" by the commercial court, in 2021. Together with the League against Cancer and the consumer association Foodwatch, Yuka is actively committed to the withdrawal of potassium nitrites (E249 and E252) as well as sodium nitrites (E250 and E251), mainly used to improve the shelf life of ham.
Launched two years ago, the petition had collected more than 450,000 signatures. Following which the butchers accused Yuka of a "call for boycott". Nevertheless, the documents provided by the application led the court to change its mind and to evoke this Wednesday "the reality of a subject and a public debate of general interest on the health consequences for consumers of the use of nitrate additives in sausages (...) As a result, the allegations complained of on the application (...) are part of a subject of general interest". The court ruled that "there is no call for boycott from the allegations in question", and that this petition "must be protected under the right to freedom of expression, of which there is no characterization of any abuse".