Determination of the regulation of the Argentine Food Code´s Compliance for labeling of dairy substitutes
Abstract: In the dairy activity, the production of cheese and ricotta discards approximately 55% of the milk used, wasting 6 million L / Day of whey. Currently, they are used as raw material for new products such as dairy-based drinks, grated cheeses and spreads. These advances led to...
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Universidad Nacional Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
2021
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In the dairy activity, the production of cheese and ricotta discards approximately 55% of the milk used, wasting 6 million L / Day of whey. Currently, they are used as raw material for new products such as dairy-based drinks, grated cheeses and spreads.
These advances led to the need to regulate the packaged food´s labeling, incorporating to the ch. V of the Argentine Food Code (CAA) (year 2005), to protect and guide the consumer. The products "dairy drinks" and "fermented dairy drinks" were incorporated in the ch. VIII of the CAA (year 2018).
The aim of this research was to determine the compliance rate of the CAA regulations for the labeling of dairy substitutes (SL) commercialized at hypermarkets in Córdoba City in 2020; and evaluate the influence of dairy food labeling on consumers purchasing choices.
A descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study was carried out on 39 SL labels, compared through a check-list, and by 176 structured surveys. Differences in compliance and influence were evaluated by inferential statistics using the proportions homogeneity test, with a significance level of 0.05. To analyze compliance and non-compliance according to the type of product, the chi-square test was used, for the same level of significance.
It was obtained that 85% of the SL showed some non-compliance, mainly in the exhibition and distribution of the mandatory information (33%) and in the optional labeling (8%), prevailing in the drinkable SL. No significant influences of the label were found in the respondents´ purchase choice (only in 7% was it determined by reading and information on it), it was estimated, by a 95% confidence interval, that the proportion of the sample group who were influenced in its choice, and it is among [0.03; 0.11].
The label is the main mean of communication between the consumer and the manufacturer, and therefore the regulation´s compliance is highly relevant since it provides all the information that the consumer needs to make a decision on their purchase.
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