“A true scourge.” The minister responsible for health and access to care, Yannick Neuder, said before the National Assembly, on Thursday, May 22, consider “the prohibition” of Vody, a mixture of vodka and energy drink, sold in colorful cans.
The minister was arrested by the Guadeloupe Mepepio, Olivier Serva. “Mr. Minister, what wants to become this product? Asked Olivier Serva, remembering that Vody has been banned in Ivory Coast since 2003.
The MP of Guadalupe also recalled that this can in the can, which contains between 18 and 22% alcohol, represents “the equivalent of four disturbances of a row vodka.” According to Olivier Serva, the Vody, whose advertising is moving towards young people abroad, is responsible for several traffic accidents and health concerns.
Towards the prohibition of Vody advertising?
Of medical training, Minister Yannick Neuder also denounced “the” neurological “cardiovascular impact of Vody on young people who consume this drink regularly and denounces” an extremely aggressive marketing for our young people.
“We are going to have a prevention campaign for our youth,” he announced for the first time, before adding that we had to go further.
“We must have all possible levers to imagine this prohibition of these substances that are harmful to our youth,” said Yannick Neuder.
The minister thus cited a bill presented by the deputy of the RDA for the meeting, Karine Lebon, aimed at “protecting the youth from the ads in favor of alcohol”, ensuring that he wants to show “the maximum firmness and tolerance to zero towards this marketing that attacks the health of our youth.”
Source: BFM TV
