Nutri-Score: Coop and Migros must follow suit
Now there are already two suppliers who want to label their products with the Nutri-Score on the Swiss food market: After Danone, Nestlé is introducing the simplified nutritional labeling. A positive decision by Nestlé, which gives a big boost to the cause of simplified nutritional labeling. For Consumer Protection, it is clear that the two large Swiss retailers Coop and Migros must now follow suit.
For years, the Consumer Protection and numerous other organizations are working to ensure that a "traffic light" label on the front of the product shows consumers how balanced a food is. It is now clear that simplified labeling is on the way: such labels are being introduced throughout Europe and worldwide to provide consumers with quick orientation.
However, if different labels are introduced, there is a great danger that they will confuse more than help. For this reason, the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO has also been trying for several months to make the French Nutri-Score palatable to manufacturers and suppliers.
Already, products from the French food group Danone on the market, the country of origin of the Nutri-Score. The fact that Nestlé is now following suit and introducing labeling in some markets, including Switzerland, will give the Nutri-Score a boost. "Coop and Migros should now also rely on the Nutri-Score," demands Sara Stalder, Executive Director of Consumer Protection. So far, both orange giants have blocked this. Nestlé is now creating facts and hopefully the two major distributors will also realize that it is better to rely on a uniform, good labeling system instead of imposing a confusing variety on consumers. After all, other labels are also entering the market, some of them with little message or with confusing information.
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