#Roquefortsansnutriscore

Photo credits : Dominique Martin
Non-contractual photo with identical quantities for both products

Nutri-Score labeling raises questions.
It’s time to get informed and react !

By 2022, Nutri-Score labeling would be made compulsory on all products by the public authorities.
The Nutri-Score algorithm would have the effect of classifying nearly 90% of cheeses as D or E (with more than 80% of cheeses as D).
The Protected Designation of Origin Roquefort would be classified E.
Roquefort, as well as other PDO cheeses, are foods that are minimally processed and contain very few additives, respecting traditional recipes strictly framed by PDO specifications. These cheeses cannot be modified by regulation. The PDO, precisely, PROTECTS them as a gastronomic heritage.
With Nutri-Score labelling, the PDO would no longer protect. On the contrary, it would expose and penalize Roquefort as well as PDO cheeses which would see their value and their nutritional contributions very poorly valued!
The 3,500 sheep breeders and 2,000 people working in cheese dairies in the Roquefort region are calling in a manifesto for exemption from the Nutri-Score for Roquefort.

THE MANIFESTO

Why is the Nutri-Score not suitable for
Roquefort and PDO cheeses ?

Press conference #RoquefortSansNutriscore of Confederation 11 october

Tuesday, October 19, Roquefort and Nutri-Score: where is common sense?

Tuesday, November 2, 2021, Roquefort and Nutri-Score: Where is the food balance?

Tuesday 23 November 2021, Roquefort and Nutri-Score: Where is the pleasure?

to go further :

The current draft algorithm does not take into account the calcium intake of cheeses and devalues the nutritional qualities of the latter, the intake of which is also recommended by Santé Publique France.
The nutritional calculation is made on 100 g of product and does not take into account the average consumption of cheese which is 30 g/day.
This is how diet soda is better rated than Roquefort.
The Nutri-Score calculates the food balance on the scale of the food and not of the diet in general over a day, over a week…
The algorithm does not take into account the additives in the recipe, the origin and number of ingredients, the degree of processing, the cooking process. It thus promotes highly processed industrial products to the detriment of traditional recipes, comprising few ingredients and without additives like that of Roquefort.