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"I consider it a positive development that nutritional information does not have to be stated on the front of packaging. More room is thus left to producers to incorporate the name, logo and various marketing messages essential for ensuring the competitiveness of a product on the market. The consumer will also, for the first time, obtain information from the packaging on the origin of poultry, pork, mutton and lamb meat, which, particularly in the context of the recent avian influenza epidemic, is an important precondition for being able to make qualified decisions when purchasing products containing meat. All in all, I firmly believe that the compromise that has been reached balances the interests of consumers and producers, which is more the exception than the rule in the case of European regulations. The weak point of the new food labelling regulations, in my opinion, is the insufficient response to the problem of obesity, which is becoming the epidemic of the third millennium. It is a sensitive topic, particularly for inhabitants of the Czech Republic, more than two-thirds of whom suffer from obesity, and which is currently the second most overweight country in the EU. In such circumstances, I can imagine the possible implementation of an obligation to place a warning on the packaging of products containing excessive amounts of fat or sugar. The new food labelling rules unfortunately do not go that far."@en1
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