Integrated System for the Population's Education for the Foodstuffs’ Nutritional Labeling

Abstract

Healthy eating of the population is an extremely important and complex matter for all mankind. A key point of Directive 2000/13/EC gives consumers the opportunity to obtain all the essential information, concerning the composition, manufacturer, methods of storage and preparation, the existence in the content of substances known as allergens and other things that can harm the consumer, from their foods’ labels. In accordance with European Regulation (EC) No 1924/ 2006, the claim is that these should be allowed, only if they are well understood by the average consumer. After some research under the NUTRILAB project (FP7- PEOPLE- 2012- IRSES, 318 946 - NUTRILAB, Nutritional Labeling Study in Black Sea Region Countries project), it was confirmed that there existed negligence in the labels produced by some manufacturers and many problems in the joint knowledge and understanding of nutritional labeling messages by the consumers. This paper predicts the structure of an integrated system of consumer education and awareness, using a complex of rich management with modern techniques and methods of education, geared towards achieving healthy nutrition with adequate consumption for actual consumer health. The chosen system is integrated into existing programs on tuition and educational levels, and in-service training or further training. It foreshadows a government operative accept action for that policy application, focused on the primary objective of the health of populations through awareness’ attitudes in the correct reception of messages by the nutritional labeling.