A group of scientists have made another plea for making the colour-coded nutrition label mandatory for the entire EU, while southern EU countries vehemently oppose it, saying it puts the traditional Mediterranean diet at a disadvantage. On Tuesday (16 March), 269 European scientists together with 21 associations of health experts signed a petition asking the EU executive to adopt the French Nutri-Score as the EU-wide food labelling. The signatories, led by Serge Hercberg, a professor of nutrition at the University of Paris 13, considered the father of Nutri-Score, recalled that the colour-coded label is the only nutritional scheme that has been supported by numerous scientific studies published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals.