Topic “food labelling” — Exporter Magazine

Consumers may consider organic cookies, yogurt and potato chips to be tastier, healthier and lower in calories because they carry an organic label, according to FoodNavigator-USA.com. A Dutch university has developed an analysis to detect fraud or other irregularities in products such as meat and cheese, and is looking to partner with the industry and governments to develop further food tests, according to FoodProductionDaily.com. The Report comes to a number of important conclusions including the fact that hard interventions, such as taxes or subsidies on specific goods and services, would be difficult to justify. The probability of success of a tax on energy-dense nutrient poor foods is rated as ‘low’. Consumers in Germany and France are more likely to respond to positive clean label terminology on food products than ‘free-from’ claims that are popular in the UK, according to FoodNavigator.com. A UK consumer study has uncovered serious misunderstandings about what ‘organic’ food is, with one in four people admitting confusion and one in five believing organic food is lower in fat, according to FoodNavigator.com.