A decree, published Tuesday in the official journal, limits the maximum content of added sugar in local products distributed exclusively in overseas territories, three years after the passage of the Lurel law prohibiting the distribution of sweeter agro-food products there than. metropolis.
This decree specifies that “the content of added sugars in everyday foodstuffs“, distributed in the overseas departments and in the communities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, but not distributed in France, “may not exceed the highest content of added sugars found in foodstuffs” from the same family “the most distributed in hexagonal France”.
It must be said that the difference between the sugar content of ultra-marine and hexagonal products is far from trivial: for example, an orange soda sold in Guadeloupe contains 47% more sugar compared to a soda sold in metropolitan France!
As the Minister of Social Affairs and Health Marisol Touraine recalled during the presentation of the health strategy for the Overseas Territories, in these territories “obesity and overweight strike more severely, they cause a high prevalence of diabetes, kidney and heart failure and more strokes “.
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