This marking will convey accurate information to the consumer and help him to choose healthier food, count in the CPS. After all, excessive consumption of sugar, saturated fatty acids, salt leads to the development of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes.
the Idea of CPS was not made by the meat producers, says the head of Executive Committee of National meat Association Sergey Yushin. In his opinion, the system is biased: the rules of consumption are very individual and depend on the state of health, age, particular person and many other factors.
Useful it seems to be a complicating project to inform consumers about properties of products, the Executive Director of the National Union of meat processors Catherine lucchino. For example, 1.75 grams of salt in baby food – the norm. But if marking on the “Traffic light”, it is necessary to apply the icon is red. “The parents, seeing the red color on the label, perceive it as a signal “stop” and choose a product, but not because this product is good, but because it was not included in the list marked,” – says the expert. In addition, worldwide the introduction of such markings is preceded by explanatory work of state bodies.
And many manufacturers of soft drinks and so make use of different label elements, quantities of sugar, says the President of the Union of manufacturers of soft drinks and mineral waters (WIS) Maxim Novikov. Also, manufacturers of soft drinks have agreed to reduce by 10% the amount of added sugar in products until the end of 2024. In addition, the company plans to release products in small packages that will help buyers to better regulate the amount of sugar.
However, by the end of 2019, some transnational holdings introduced a “Traffic light”. But to understand how the labeling affected the volume of their sales, yet possible. Because of the pandemic, sales of all categories of soft drinks, including sugar, fell from March to may 2020 by 20% compared to the same period of 2019.
