{"id":93903,"date":"2024-07-04T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=93903"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:29:48","slug":"compulsory-labelling-of-fraudulent-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/kennzeichnungspflicht-fuer-mogelpackungen\/","title":{"rendered":"France introduces mandatory labelling for deceptive packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consumer advocates are calling for better protection against hidden price increases in supermarkets. The current issue is that retailers in France have had to point out such deceptive packaging on the shelves since 1 July.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 1 July, food retailers in France have been required to label cheat packs with a notice on the shelf. Reduflation (made up of the French terms \u201er\u00e9duction\u201c and \u201einflation\u201c) is what the French call such business practices, where the former Package contents reduced<\/strong> is used during the Price remains the same or increased<\/strong> is used. According to the Paris Ministry of the Economy, this practice is not prohibited, but has been heavily criticised as it is hardly noticed by consumers when shopping.<\/p>\n

For a period of two months after the change in pack size, the following is now available in France a notice on the shelf is mandatory<\/strong>, which shows how the quantity in the pack and the price have changed. The Regulation<\/a> applies to food and non-food products, regardless of whether they are branded or private label products.<\/strong> deals.<\/p>

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Labelling deceptive packaging in Germany too<\/h2>\n

In Germany, too, consumer advocates are demanding that manufacturers Labelling packaging with warnings<\/a> if a product contains less content but the price has remained the same or even increased or the composition has changed. The Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) and the Consumer Advice Centre Hamburg have called on the German government to regulate deceptive packaging in this country as well<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201eConsumers must be able to recognise deceptive packaging at a glance when shopping. Products with altered compositions or lower filling quantities at the same or higher price should be labelled with a warning for at least six months.\u201c<\/p>\n

Ramona Pop,<\/strong> Chairwoman of the vzbv<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the view of the vzbv and the Consumer Advice Centre Hamburg, the federal government must better protection against hidden price increases in supermarkets<\/strong>. The consumer advice centre in Hamburg has been running a List of cheat packs<\/a>. In 2023, it registered the highest number of cheat packs to date with over 100 published examples. High number of complaints also expected in 2024<\/strong>. There are examples of both \u201eshrinkflation\u201c (changing the contents while the price remains the same or increases) and \u201eskimflation\u201c (replacing high-quality ingredients with cheaper ingredients).<\/p>\n

\u201eMany people don't realise when they reach for a cheat pack in their daily shopping. A reduced quantity of ingredients at the same price is often not immediately noticeable. It is even more difficult for consumers to recognise when manufacturers replace high-quality ingredients with inferior ones. People are extremely annoyed.\u201c<\/p>\n

Michael Knobloch,<\/strong> Board of the Consumer Advice Centre Hamburg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source:<\/em> vzbv<\/a> \/ Minist\u00e8re de l'\u00c9conomie, des Finances et de la Souverainet\u00e9 industrielle et num\u00e9rique<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer advocates are calling for better protection against hidden price increases in supermarkets. The current issue is that retailers in France have had to point out such deceptive packaging on the shelves since 1 July.","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":93905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Verbrauchersch\u00fctzer fordern einen besseren Schutz vor versteckten Preiserh\u00f6hungen. H\u00e4ndler in Frankreich m\u00fcssen seit dem 1. Juli auf Mogelpackungen hinweisen.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Mogelpackungen","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[36,32,59348],"class_list":{"0":"post-93903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-packmittel-und-packstoffe","8":"tag-markt","9":"tag-packmittel-und-packstoffe","10":"tag-verbraucherzentrale","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}