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"To improve the nutritional quality of food, the public authorities (...) have chosen an incentive method based on the voluntary work of the agro-food industries" , recalls the Court of Auditors. However, "the results obtained by this self-regulation are now showing their limits" , she believes. "In view of the encouraging but still insufficient results of the obesity prevention and fight policy, the public authorities should work for the adoption of more restrictive regulations."

Prohibit certain advertisements.

In France, one in two people is overweight and one in six is ​​obese. Faced with this situation, the Court of Auditors makes 8 recommendations to put an end to this obesity "epidemic" . For example, it encourages the public authorities to limit the levels of salt, sugar and fat in processed foods or to ban advertisements for foods that are too fatty and too sweet for children.

She also regrets that the Nutri-Score - a color scale that notes the nutritional quality of industrial foods - is not compulsory, due to European regulations. Its generalization “ runs up against the opposition of a part of the industrialists , in particular of many multinational companies, in particular those producing drinks or very sweet and / or fatty foods” , underlines the Court.

More than 180 manufacturers and distributors have adopted Nutri-Score since its launch two years ago, according to the Ministry of Health. But according to the UFC-Que Choisir association, it is only present on 5% of products sold in supermarkets.

Tax fatty and sugary foods.

The Court of Auditors also points to advertising for these products, which targets the youngest: "Attempts to increase marketing supervision of which children are the targets in the audiovisual and digital media have failed" . Among the avenues that the Court is considering, additional taxation of the least nutritionally good products, whose “ effect has been widely demonstrated in the case of tobacco ”