government responses to the sunflower oil shortage

A meeting was held Tuesday, April 26 in Bercy, about the shortage of sunflower oil. Manufacturers are allowed to change some of their recipes to be able to do without them. It can be replaced “by rapeseed or palm oil”, indicates the journalist Viktor Frédéric, present, Tuesday, April 26, on the set of 12/13. Manufacturers also have new obligations: they must, in the event of a recipe change, “stick a label on the old composition, specifying in priority the presence of allergen or GMO”he continues.

Distributors will also have to inform customers of recipe changes, using “from a poster at the entrance to the store” or a “QR code which will return to the fraud prevention site with all the necessary information”. These new measures aim to “offer maximum transparency, for food safety reasons”. Consumer associations “appreciate the effort” but “fear a headache for consumers”concludes the journalist.