Italy claims it s winning the war against French food labels – POLITICO politico.eu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from politico.eu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The EU is currently at a ‘tipping point’ when it comes to nutritional challenges, according to a new report, which highlights the urgent need for an integrated approach to ensure the balance tips in the right direction.
The report, published in May, takes a comprehensive look at European food systems and highlights that the EU is faced with a number of nutritional challenges, including overweight and obesity in adults, children and adolescents.
Although southern European countries and the UK were found to have the highest prevalence of overweight in children and adolescents, the number of overweight adults were found to exceed 50% of the population in all the countries analysed.
SHARING OPTIONS:
Italian MEP Herbert Dorfmann told the webinar that he does not think the Farm to Fork strategy was written based only on science. \ Donal O Leary
The European Commision will not conduct an impact, deputy director general for health and food safety Claire Bury has said.
“We’re not going to assess the strategy as a whole, I don’t think that makes much sense,” Bury told a ‘Food & Farming: What future for Europe?’ webinar on Wednesday.
“There will be impact assessments on anything that we put into law, and anything that becomes a legal obligation.”
Bury also told the webinar that here are no sector s that are “not sustainable” per se, there are only business practices that are not unsustainable and that the commission should work with the livestock sector.
SHARING OPTIONS:
An impact assessment of the Farm to Fork Strategy ‘as a whole’ will not be conducted.
The European Commision ‘is in the process’ of banning imports which exceed EU pesticide limits, deputy director general for health and food safety Claire Bury has said.
“We are quite clear that if pesticides are prohibited within the EU, then we should no longer set maximum residue limits for imports from outside the EU. We should also make that prohibition, apply to products that are imported,” Bury told a Food & Farming: What future for Europe? webinar on Wednesday.
“If we’re talking about neonicotinoids where it’s very clear [there is a] threat to pollinators, something which is now recognized as a matter of global concern, then we think that we can justify this according to the to the WTO rules.”