DEBUNKING FAKE NEWS ABOUT NUTRI-SCORE The Nutri-Score is a front-of-pack nutrition label (FoPNL) officially adopted in France to be affixed on food packaging. It is intended to allow to easily compare the nutritional quality of foods and help consumers to orient their choices towards better nutritional quality alternatives. It is a sciencebased public health tool. But the agri-food lobbies are opposed to its deployment and they spread out many fake news aimed at discrediting Nutri-Score. These fake news are sometimes taken up by people in good faith who do not know enough about the issue FoPNL or by certain actors defending economic or sometimes ideological interests. This article aims to debunk some of these fake news widely relayed by lobbies.
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