The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has issued a set of exceptional and temporary measures to allow changes in the labeling of foods containing vegetable oils or fats in order to facilitate relabeling by the industry due to the shortage of sunflower oil due to the war in Ukraine.
The consumer organization (OCU in Spanish) has described as “enormous progress” the Royal Decree on Food Advertising aimed at minors, to collect the main points defended by entity in its campaign ‘No to the ads empacho’, as the ban on advertising unhealthy food to children under 16 years or the use of influencers and celebrities to promote their consumption.
On the website of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs is the hearing and public information process of the draft royal decree amending Royal Decree 1798/2010, of December 30, which regulates the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters and spring waters packaged for human consumption, and Royal Decree 1799/2010, of December 30, which regulates the process of preparation and marketing of packaged prepared waters for human consumption.
The project, which comes from the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN), aims to incorporate the changes included in the new Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast version).
The Royal Decree on the regulation of food and beverage advertising aimed at children will prohibit the appearance in commercial communications aimed at children under 16 years of “influencers”, people or characters “of relevance, public notoriety or proximity” with the child audience, whether real or fictional, who, by their career, “are likely to constitute a model or example for minors” as well as mothers or fathers, educators, teachers, professionals of children’s programs, athletes or artists.
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.”
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