BRUSSELS - It was expected among the measures against food waste that the European Commission will present on Wednesday 5 July. But, as ANSA learns, the delegated act of the EU that wanted to extend the life of food with a tweak to the label on the minimum durability date ('To be consumed preferably by ... Often good beyond '), circulated in March, has not overcome the perplexities of member countries. The presentation has therefore been postponed to a later date and the work in Brussels on an anti-waste label goes on.
Despite surveys and consultations that the European Commission has been conducting since 2015 on consumers' perception of the expiration date, the path indicated with 'often good beyond', as we learn, for now does not convince the capitals. One of the issues to be solved concerns linguistic diversity, so the phrase is effective in some countries but not very incisive or understandable in others.
The subject of the debate is also the same proposal from Brussels to intervene on food labeling, an area in which the Community executive itself had announced - in the Farm to Fork Strategy - an organic reform, with the indication of origin and nutritional emblems on the Nutriscore model. A reform that is no longer talked about in Brussels. Even on waste, it is reported, the time to change the label does not seem ripe.