Italy wants to replace the Nutri-Score system with Nutrinform

The Italian government, food producers, trade associations and retailers have teamed up to oppose the adoption of Nutri-Score. This nutritional labelling system – used in several EU countries – has a ‘traffic light’ system of five colours and five letters to signal excess sugar, fat and salt in foods. As an alternative, Italy’s Nutrinform Battery food classification system takes into account the daily nutritional intake.

This article was also published in 11/2021 of Trade magazin.