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EU Commission Recommends Alcohol Health Warning Labels

RTÉ Radio 1 Brussels 13d13d Impact 5
The European Commission has issued recommendations for tougher actions to combat liver disease, including higher taxes on alcohol and ultra-processed foods. Alcohol is cited as the single largest cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer deaths in the European region.

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Sources · 7 independent

RTÉ Radio 1

“tougher action, including much higher taxes on both alcohol on healthy food. every year from liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, which is about 780 deaths a day in European region.”

Vesti FM

“Even the European Commission's Anna Kaitsi Itkanen confirmed that it is too early to say how this will work. There is a document on paper, but there is a complete lack of understanding of how to implement it.”

RTÉ Radio 1

“a key recommendation is that the impact of industry, which has been very harmful in terms of the alcohol industry in particular, should be excluded from all public health discussions”

RTÉ Radio 1

“there is a recommendation in this document that alcohol health warning labels are introduced in all countries in Europe, including warnings in relation to fatal liver diseases in fatal cancers and armed to the unborn fetus by alcohol consumption.”

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