Monthly newsletter "Consumer"
Consumer advices, discussions, news, and comparative testing of products.
Educational strategy on Internet safety
This website is a result of a Socrates, Grundtvig 2 project, which started back in 2004. The first stage of the project, which was called Development and initial implementation of an educational strategy on Internet safety for multipliers, teachers and parents, was focused on the creation of common strategy and action plan for the informal education of European adult citizens on how to protect their children on the Internet.
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The FIFA World Cup makes the children fat!
In connection with this years FIFA World Cup the food company Nestle is marketing FIFA Official Licensed Breakfast Cereal specially for children. But the product is more like candy than breakfast since it contains 35,4% sugar and has a energy contend of 1676 KJ (395 KCAL)/100g.
ASECO, a European network of 12 consumer organisations now voice strong criticism of FIFA - ‘FIFA Official Licensed Breakfast Cereal’ consists of more than one-third sugar and has a energy contend that is only a little less that that of a Mars-bar. It is most unfortunate that FIFA allows the World Cup to be used is used to market unhealthy food that is contributing to the increase in obesity among children, says Klaus Melvin Jensen of ASECO.
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Food Safety: A Shared Responsibility
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determine the role and responsibilities in assuring food safety of each stakeholder in the food chain; establish a representative and equitable partnership among regulators, industry, academia, professional organizations and consumers to identify problems, formulate recommendations, and develop and implement practices that ensure food safety.