{"id":4055,"date":"2020-02-23T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:19:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-23T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:19:19","slug":"the-5-key-movers-and-shakers-in-food-labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"The 5 key movers and shakers in food labeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>From left, Giovanni Ferrero, Stephane Le Foll and Vytenis Andriukaitis | AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<p class=\"category custom-label\">\n                Leveraging Food Labels            <\/p>\n<h1>The 5 key movers and shakers in food labeling<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">The list includes a European commissioner, a chocolatier and a farmer.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Kait Bolongaro<\/span> <span>and<\/span> <span class=\"vcard\">Emmet Livingstone<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\">11\/27\/17, 6:00 AM CET<\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated 11\/29\/17, 1:27 PM CET<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p><strong>Roberto Moncalvo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Italian is at the helm of Coldiretti, Italy&#8217;s leading farmers&#8217; union. With its 500,000 members and 800 offices, Coldiretti carries a political weight that can\u2019t be ignored. Coldiretti influenced Rome\u2019s decision to launch the \u201cMade in Italy\u201d origin campaign for iconic food such as pasta and tomatoes, Moncalvo told POLITICO. The move put Italy at odds with the European Commission and farming powerhouses such as Canada, the U.S. and Brazil. The farmers&#8217; union is now taking aim at so-called traffic light nutrition labels that indicate foods high in sugar and fat in France and the U.K. through a new association, Filiera Italia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vytenis Andriukaitis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s health commissioner is intent on providing consumers with more information about nutritional facts and ingredients in alcohol. Since taking office in 2014, Andriukaitis has repeatedly criticized the alcohol industry for obtaining an exemption to EU food-labeling laws. He has also warned producers that if he isn\u2019t satisfied with their self-regulatory proposal, DG SANTE won\u2019t hesitate to propose its own legislation. The Lithuanian commissioner has to tread carefully, however, as coming down hard on the industry in favor of stricter health policies could upset some of the EU\u2019s most powerful countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rupert Howes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Howes is the CEO of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a nonprofit group responsible for certifying sustainable seafood through the blue\u00a0MSC-certified label. Howes has overseen the program\u2019s expansion since 2004, turning MSC into the foremost sustainable fish and seafood label in the world. There are now more than 20,000 MSC-certified fish and seafood products around the world. The organization\u2019s goal is to provide consumers with more information about where their fish come from and support sustainable fisheries to protect the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giovanni Ferrero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old is head of the world\u2019s third-largest confectionery company, Ferrero. The organization packs a political punch in Italy. The chocolate giant is widely thought to be behind Italy\u2019s assault on traffic light nutrition labels in the U.K. Rome reportedly\u00a0pushed the Commission to launch infringement proceedings after being pressured by Ferrero.\u00a0Its products, such as Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, are in the firing line of food-labeling campaigns that target foods high in sugar, fat and salt. As attitudes towards\u00a0palm oil shift across Europe \u2014 especially in Italy \u2014 Ferrero\u00a0remains a staunch user of the product,\u00a0going as far as\u00a0launching a campaign to defend it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St\u00e9phane Le Foll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s former agriculture minister delivered the\u00a0<em>coup de\u00a0gr\u00e2ce<\/em> that allowed EU governments to use origin labels.\u00a0Farmers long hankered for labels that show the national origins of produce, hoping that patriotic consumers would pick their produce and raise their prices. During the depths of France&#8217;s dairy crisis, Le Foll managed to convince the European Commission to allow him the option for milk and meat. The move was a coup for France and a total U-turn for Brussels, which had for years held that origin labels threaten the single market. The effect? A growing number of countries have followed Le Foll&#8217;s lead and are now adding similar labels.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is part of the special report Leveraging Food Labels.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Kait Bolongaro<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<p> <span>and<\/span> <\/p>\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Emmet Livingstone<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left, Giovanni Ferrero, Stephane Le Foll and Vytenis Andriukaitis | AFP via Getty Images Leveraging Food Labels The 5 key movers and shakers in food labeling The list includes a European commissioner, a chocolatier and a farmer. By Kait Bolongaro and Emmet Livingstone 11\/27\/17, 6:00 AM CET Updated 11\/29\/17, 1:27 PM CET Roberto Moncalvo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}