Members of 7 organizations of businessmen and producers of Panama requested the National Assembly to suspend the discussion of Bill 265 “Law of Frontal Labeling of Nutritional Warning”, since Panama as a signatory of the Central American Economic Integration Subsystem (SIECA) is currently participating in the discussion of the Central American Technical Regulations (RTCA) on this matter.
Author: Daphne Ewing-Chow
Would a front of package food labeling system that indicates whether food items are high in “bad for you” nutrients such as sugar, fat, or sodium result in the mass reformulation of foods? Would it change consumer habits? And if it did, would this be good or bad for business?
Last month, the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution that calls for a stronger commitment from 27 European Union member states to cancer prevention.
The resolution “asks the [European] Commission and the member states to encourage and help consumers to make informed, healthy and sustainable choices about food products by means of the adoption of a mandatory and harmonized E.U. front-of-pack nutritional label that is developed based on robust and independent scientific evidence.”
The PAN Parliamentary Group – People-Animals-Nature has submitted an initiative to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action in order to inquire the position of the Portuguese Government regarding the assessment and possible vote on the file concerning the proposed Regulation (EU) 2018/848, approving the rules on organic production and labeling of organic products, by the European Commission, scheduled for this week.
To help consumers understand the nutritional information on food labels sold in supermarkets, a group of researchers from the School of Pharmacy developed the RotulApp application. Through product barcodes, RotulApp verifies the presence of excess nutrients, such as sugars; saturated fats and sodium in processed and ultra-processed foods. The feature is free and available for Android devices.
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