Monday, April 28, 2014

Health: Observatory CODACONS born on diets, exposes the … – Web Weather

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DIET COVER With the approach of ‘summer multiply on the web, in newspapers and on TV commercials’ diets and miracle weight-loss products able to lose weight fast. Often sin is true ‘buffalo’ – says the CODACONS – but there are cases where abuse of diets and weight loss products can cause serious harm to health. For this reason Codacons, in collaboration with TER.MIL.CONS (Consumers of the Third Millennium), decided to set up an Observatory on diets. These tasks and targets of the organization: to identify the most advertised products and diets; analyze the techniques of communication for the promotion of diets and products; identify and analyze the deception and aggression ‘of the advertisements; analyze the compliance of the means of communication used, with the Consumer Code, the NRA deliberations and European legislation, and in particular with the directives of the Ministry of Health in the labeling of foodstuffs and Regulation claim. And finally, create a document that can be a handbook of advertising ‘on diets and / or nutritional products. The Centre will operate ‘for 12 months and the results of the investigation will be made public at the end of March 2015; you can join the companies in the sector and the first company ‘commitment to the project and to provide’ was Gianluca Mech SpA, herbal food and Vicenza. Codacons “hopes that the initiative will take part in other specialized companies.”

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