Health

7.1) Setting minimum standards for food quality, as well as food traceability, including by limiting the use of antibiotics and other animal medicinal products to what is absolutely necessary to protect the health and well-being of animals instead of use in a preventive way and by making sure that controls are tightened in that respect.

7.2) Educating people about healthy habits from an early age, and encouraging them to make safe and healthy choices, through taxation of non-healthy processed food and by making information on the health properties of food readily available; for that purpose, establishing a European-wide evaluation system for processed food based upon independent and scientific expertise, and a label covering the use of hormonal substances and endocrine disruptors in the production of food. In this regard, reinforce monitoring and enforcement of existing rules and consider strengthening them.

7.3) Encouraging dialogue with the food chain actors from production to sales for corporate social responsibility regarding healthy food.

7.4) Supporting at EU level the provision of healthy, varied and affordable food in establishments servicing the public, such as school canteens, hospitals, or nursing homes, including through dedicated funding

There are currently no implementing initiatives that address this particular CoFE measure.

7.5) Investing in research on the impact of the use of antibiotics and the effects of hormonal substances and endocrine disruptors in human health.