{"id":7861,"date":"2024-02-26T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:33:08","slug":"law-172-2023-italy-cracks-down-on-synthetic-foods-and-misleading-plant-based-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/law-172-2023-italy-cracks-down-on-synthetic-foods-and-misleading-plant-based-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Law 172\/2023: Italy cracks down on synthetic foods and misleading plant-based labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long debate on the bill (DDL S.651), both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate approved law no. 172 of 1 December 2023 (\u201c<strong>law 172\/2023<\/strong>\u201c) which imposes the <strong>prohibition <\/strong>of production and sale of <strong>synthetic foods<\/strong> and the<strong>use<\/strong> of meat and fish terms for plant products.<br><br>Law 172\/2023 is a technical regulation, notified by Italy in the TRIS system. The regulation, as explained in the <strong>explanatory report<\/strong>, is adopted pursuant to art. 7 of Reg. 178\/2002, therefore, based on the &quot;<strong>precautionary principle<\/strong>\u201d. The question arises as to whether there are sufficient reasons for this adoption or whether it could be a restrictive measure on the competitiveness of the national market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent article published on&nbsp;<strong>Chambers and Partners<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/lawyers\/laura-carrara\/\" data-type=\"professionista\" data-id=\"7693\">Laura Carrara<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;examines the legislation, highlighting the<strong>scope of application<\/strong> of the new provisions, the <strong>Motivations <\/strong>which led to the introduction of such bans and the possible <strong>sanctions <\/strong>for those who violate these rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-trends\/italy-bans-synthetic-foods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Full article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long debate on the bill (DDL S.651), both the Chamber of ... <a title=\"Law 172\/2023: Italy cracks down on synthetic foods and misleading plant-based labels\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/law-172-2023-italy-cracks-down-on-synthetic-foods-and-misleading-plant-based-labels\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Law 172\/2023: Italy cracks down on synthetic foods and misleading plant-based labels\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Legge 172\/2023: l'Italia reprime gli alimenti sintetici e le etichette fuorvianti a base vegetale - Studio Legale Milano | MBG Legal | Mondini Bonora Ginevra","description":"After a long debate on the bill (DDL S.651), both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate approved law no. 172 of 1 December 2023 (&quot;law"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alimenti-e-bevande","category-diritto-alimentare","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbg.legal\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}