Food sovereignty requires better consumer information. This is what Olivia Grégoire, delegate minister in charge of Consumer Affairs, believes. Gabriel Attal announced in early February that he wanted to address this issue and the government is working on a labeling project similar to nutriscore, which classifies products according to their nutritional value.
Olivia Grégoire thus declares herself in favor of the rapid implementation of an “origin score” that would harmonize at the national level the presentation of this information considered important by eight out of 10 French people for trans products.
Since the beginning of the agricultural crisis, thousands of establishments have been inspected by DGCCRF agents on this issue of the origin of the products. Anomalies were detected in 372 stores and in 70 of them deceptive commercial practices were even considered.
This was illustrated this Thursday by Minister Olivia Grégoire on Sud Radio.
“You buy a sauce in a store with a nice French flag because the eggs were produced in France,” he says. “But they don’t tell you where the oil comes from, which nevertheless represents 80% of the sauce.” a processed product, you cannot give information when it suits you.”
Discussions in March
All interested parties (consumer associations, distributors and manufacturers of agri-food products) will be invited to transparency meetings in March to discuss a common, shared and voluntary initiative to improve transparency on the origin of products stored for consumers when possible. as some supplies may change.
If this “origin score” is successful, Olivia Grégoire declared herself in favor of taking this issue to the European level.
Source: BFM TV
