EC targets red meat and alcohol in ‘watered down’ cancer plan Health campaigners are frustrated after the European Commission unveiled plans to review – but not phase out funding for promotional campaigns for red meat and processed meat due to links to cancer.
The Commission’s cancer strategy published today promises to undertake a review of the promotion policy for agricultural products. This, it added, will be ‘in line with the shift to a more plant-based diet, with less red and processed meat and other foods linked to cancer risks and more fruit and vegetables’.
This is at odds with a leaked version of the Commission’s plan which had suggested a more controversial phase-out from the EU promotion policy for agricultural products was expected for foods linked with cancer risks, such as red and processed meat.
Nutri-Score Remains the Front Runner for Europe s Food Label Program
Researchers who have been studying the French-born FOPL respond to the criticism that Nutri-Score is at odds with the Mediterranean diet.
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The popularity of Nutri-Score across the European Union continues to rise in the bloc’s bid to harmonize all front-of-pack labeling (FOPL) systems by 2022.
In Germany, the adoption of Nutri-Score continues to gain traction, with more major food companies opting to label their products with the French-born FOPL.
Olive oil is in no way penalized by Nutri-Score. Olive oil is rated C, which is the best score for added fats… This ranking is fully consistent with public health recommendations.
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Nintendo will face an EU-wide complaint for premature wear of a joystick controller, French and EU consumer groups have said.
The French consumer protection group UFC-Que Choisir said it would join a complaint launched by The European Consumer Organisation against recurring problems with the Nintendo Switch console.
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called for a pan-European investigation and urged that Nintendo be obliged to urgently address the premature failures of its product .
Japanese video game maker Nintendo will face an EU-wide complaint for premature wear of a joystick controller, French and EU consumer groups said Wednesday.
The French consumer protection group UFC-Que Choisir said it would join a complaint launched by The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) against recurring problems with the Nintendo Switch console.
Japanese video game maker Nintendo will face an EU-wide complaint for premature wear of a joystick controller on its Switch console, French and EU consumer groups said Wednesday (27 January).
Nintendo hit with formal investigation from EU due to Joy-Con drift
A switchy situation.
We may now be one month into 2021, the fifth-year of the Nintendo Switch’s life, but that doesn’t mean the situation surrounding the infamous Joy-Con drift has subsided. On contrary, as the European Consumer Organization (BEUC) has formally called for a proper investigation into Nintendo due to receiving 25,000 complaints surrounding Joy-Con drift.
As Eurogamer reports, the aforementioned 25,000 complaints stem from Nintendo Switch owners across a swath of European countries, including Greece, Portugal, France, Norway, Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia. After receiving such a wide array of different complaints from consumers, the BEUC has now filed its own complaint to the European Commission and “national consumer protection authorities around Europe”, says Eurogamer. As the boss of the BEUC, Monique Goyens, puts it, this matter is being classified as “premature obsolesce and mislead