Tag: Agri-food
Did this egg producer lie about the quality of its products?
They have been working on it for several months. In Vendée, the Geslin group is in the sights of fraud prevention services for suspicion of deception in the marketing of…
Two million Perrier bottles destroyed after discovery of bacteria of “faecal origin”
The E. coli bacteria has just forced Perrier to get down on one knee. A subsidiary of Nestlé, the sparkling water brand had to destroy two million bottles “as a…
Steques, boulaites… A manufacturer ridicules the decree on the naming of vegetarian products
Steques, boulaites or neugâtes. This is the humorous way of renaming steaks, meatballs or other nuggets that the company Accro has chosen to try to escape the new decree published…
“I loved Knorr”, “Magnum meant big”… Intermarché assigned after a campaign deemed denigrating
“I loved Knorr”, “before Magnum it meant big” or even the Carte d’Or ice creams which “don’t go with the back of the spoon”… The giant of the agri-food and…
“We will bring inflation down to 2 or 3% per year,” assures Edouard Leclerc during negotiations with manufacturers
The commercial negotiations with agro-industrial suppliers of mass distribution with a turnover of less than 350 million euros, which ended Monday evening, “went well”, assured the media representative of the…
Bonduelle, Andros and Unilever condemned for agreement on the non-indication of the endocrine disruptor
An agreement at the expense of the French and their health? The Competition Authority announced on Thursday that it had sanctioned 19.5 million euros against 15 agri-food players, including Bonduelle,…
No “general drop in prices”, but a slight increase
The price of a large part of the products sold in supermarkets will be determined on January 31, the end date of commercial negotiations between large retailers and their agro-industry…
The “collapsed” Christmas cake affair turns into a national scandal
Outraged consumers, a distributor on the defensive and investigations still underway: in Japan, a case of “collapsed cakes”, Christmas pastries delivered deformed, took social networks by storm, making it onto…
From lemon to water to scallops to hake… Foodwatch reveals the new Christmas scams
Are labels specially designed for the holidays misleading? Some are in any case singled out by the Foodwatch association, which accuses them of misleading the consumer. Since 2017, it has…
“Opaque profits” denounced in the agri-food industry and mass distribution
When mass distribution and agri-food lack of transparency, particularly with regard to their margin, consumer associations are sounding the alarm. Four of them challenge Emmanuel Macron in an open letter…