EUFIC

The European Food Information Council (European Food Information Council, EUFIC) is a non-profit organization based in Brussels, which was founded in 1995 with the claim, the media, nutritionists, educators and consumers to science-based information on food safety & quality and health & nutrition offer.

EUFIC is supported by companies in the European food and beverage industry and the European Commission. EUFIC does not represent a product or company and operated not by its own account as a lobbyist in the legislative or regulatory region.

Some topics include:

  • Obesity
  • Diet and Weight Control
  • Functional foods
  • Food additives and sweeteners
  • Food Allergies
  • Food labeling

EUFIC projects

  • Food Today is the bimonthly newsletter of EUFIC (in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish ), which provides information on a variety of interesting topics from food safety to healthy diet and lifestyle.
  • Latest Science offers subscribers a user-friendly summary of the most important recent publications in the field of academic research on nutrition, health and food security.
  • EUFIC managed research programs on consumer understanding of nutrition information on food labels and risk communication.
  • EUFIC is an active contributor to the Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, DG Health and Consumer Protection (DG SANCO ) and the Stakeholder Consultative Platform of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
  • EUFIC contributes to a number of EU-funded research projects in

Criticism

By his own testimony, inter alia, include the following companies to EUFIC: Barilla, Coca -Cola, Kraft Foods, McDonald's, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Südzucker, Unilever. The organization Food Watch therefore referred EUFIC as " the Who 's Who of the international food corporations " and challenged the credibility of EUFIC studies in question. By means of such a study is to be taken, for example, impact on a current legislative process in order to prevent the EU-wide introduction of traffic light labeling of foods and to ban even on a national basis.

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