State of play of alcohol labelling in the EU
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Register for What's not on the bottle? State of play of alcohol labelling in the EU
This event will look at the rational of alcohol labelling, the link between alcohol and healthy diet and recent developments in area of alcohol labelling.
When a consumer drinks alcohol, it is almost 100% certain that they do not know what they are drinking, unless they are determined enough to search on the company’s website.
In 2011 the European institutions passed legislation that requires food and soft drinks including fruit juice and milk to label nutritional information and ingredients.
However, alcoholic beverages were exempted from this obligation.
It is really perplexing that European decision makers refused consumers their right to know what is in their drinks by excluding alcoholic drinks from this legislation.
The European Commission is obliged to produce a report on the matter by December this year (2014).
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The event is kindly hosted by MEP Glenis Willmott (S&D, UK), it will take place in the European Parliament (Brussels) on
10th September, 15h30 till 17h30
Draft Programme
- Opening speech by MEP Glenis Willmott
- Alcohol labelling an underused way to empower consumers
- Lars Moller, World Health Organisation Europe
- Alcohol and diet: Consumers right to know
- Ilaria Passarani, Head of the Food and Health, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
- Taking action on alcohol labelling
- Labelling: consumer information and better regulation for the EU- European Commission perspective
- Philippe Roux, Head of Unit, DG SANCO C4
- Future work on European drinking guidelines (update RARHA)
copia integrale del testo si può trovare al seguente link:
http://www.eurocare.org/library/updates/register_for_what_s_not_on_the_bottle_state_of_play_of_alcohol_labelling_in_the_eu
(Articolo pubblicato dal CUFRAD sul sito www.alcolnews.it)