Like COVID-19 the anti-palm oil claims spread around Europe We warned you!!! Anti-Palm Oil Claims will penetrate Europe. Following the Italian path, the claim Palm Oil free is spreading throughout Europe, like a virus. Italian Food companies and retailers paved the way. They have massively used it in their commercial and marketing strategies: misleading consumers […]
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Innovation & IP to Solve Global Health Challenges WHO
Innovation & IP to Solve Global Health Challenges WHO At the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board (EB) meeting in Geneva this week, member states will establish the global health agenda for 2020. One of these priority agenda items is finding sustainable pathways to implement universal health care (UHC) – a United Nations-backed initiative to […]
EESC: European Hypocrisy
EESC: European Hypocrisy The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) requires EU guidelines against sugar and palm oil, because they are supposedly among the main causes of obesity. If that is the case, then why doesn’t the EESC also suggest guidelines for the correct use of PlayStations, TV series and sofas at home? The Europe of the bureaucrats and the enemies of […]
Italian Government Confirms: Palm Oil is Healthy
Italian Government Confirms: Palm Oil is Healthy The new CREA – guidelines confirm the healthiness of palm oil. Italian Government belies – yet again – those who denigrate it. CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics) has published its Guidelines for Healthy Eating: if included in a balanced diet, palm oil is a totally normal […]
A Tax on Sugar is a Tax on Consumer Choice
In 2016, the war on sugar, in the form of taxes, started and now over 35 different national governments, states, and cities have implemented a sugar tax. The goal of these taxes was to reduce obesity and rising levels of diabetes. However, because of the necessary changes in food formulas, it also changed the taste […]
We must support innovation and intellectual property rights
Open letter to the Director General of WHI to support innovation and intellectual property rights protection. Health requires both of them. Innovation and intellectual property must be at the core of the next World Health Assembly organized by the WHO. Competere, along with a coalition of European think tanks, has published and sent to the Director General […]