Forty stakeholders - consumer organisations, food manufacturers, retailers, MEPs and academics - called on the European Commission, on Monday 27 April, to make the Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutritional label mandatory in the EU to guide consumers towards healthy food choices.
According to these stakeholders, this would be a way to address a long-term public health issue, beyond the current focus on the immediate health threat from Covid-19.
“We believe that food plays an important part in...