SECTORAL POLICIES / Consumers

Initiatives to combat double standards in food quality unveiled in Bratislava

Brussels, 13/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

Consumer Commissioner Věra Jourová and Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis unveiled EU initiatives to tackle double standards in food quality at a consumer summit in Bratislava on Friday13 October attended by leaders of the Visegrád group.

Double standards in food quality, or ‘dual quality,’ is a practice whereby the same brand in the same packaging presents products as being of equal quality although they contain different ingredients.

Arguing that the existing...