Labeling

Written by Zeferino Siani. Posted in Lesson 4

Labeling: a set of information for the benefit of the consumer.

For the length of the argument and the complex cases, it should report a summary of the topics.

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Consumer protection

Written by Zeferino Siani. Posted in Lesson 4

Legal instruments.

It is basically made of two legal safeguards:

1) The first is the National Consumer Council, which is based at the Ministry of Industry, acts as a preventive protection function of consumers, with consultative and proactive.

2) The second is constituted by consumer associations, which are more than a fortnight.

These provide both consumer advocates, who can turn to one of them.

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Misleading advertising

Written by Zeferino Siani. Posted in Lesson 4

In recent decades, commercial advertising has changed a lot, both for increasingly powerful means of dissemination of technological development made available, either because they are profoundly changed the same mode of communication, in turn influenced by changes in social reality and lifestyles.

The advertisement, as an information tool for the public, tends to become a vehicle orientation choices, suitable to stimulate the needs, to induce the purchase.

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The frauds

Written by Zeferino Siani. Posted in Lesson 4

The food fraud, an ongoing war.

Food fraud is unfortunately a battlefield nonstop from dishonest producers and the N.O.S.

Today, for the preparation of food, we have very advanced technology to improve the characteristics, and this is positive; unfortunately, however, often we use sophisticated methods to commit fraud.

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Production and environment

Written by Zeferino Siani. Posted in Lesson 4

Requirements of containers and utensils.

The topic "Labeling", long and complex, discussed in the previous chapter, has left little space for both related topics such as packaging, packaging, both for production and environmental problems resulting from it.
To resume the thread, it should be noted that the scope of the existing Community legislation always cites, in relation to foods intended for sale to consumers, these three terms: labeling, presentation and advertising.
For presentation means the shape or appearance conferred to foodstuffs or to their packaging, the material used for their packaging, the manner in which they are arranged on the shelves, the environment in which they are exposed.
It is therefore necessary also to mention wrapping and packaging, which we will do now.

By the way advertising means the rules of fairness in publicizing the characteristics of food products, in particular with regard to the nature, identity, quality, composition, quantity, durability, place of origin or provenance of obtaining or manufacturing.
This topic will be covered in the next chapter, when we will also talk of misleading advertising.

Today, no food and industrial product can circulate and be offered for sale without pre-packaging and packaging. The packaging allows movement in space and time of food and a

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