Law

Supplements, health information and advertising

According to the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in Case C-657/24 of 17 September 2026, Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 must be interpreted as meaning that written advertising intended to promote a food supplement does not fall within the concept of labelling for the purposes of that provision; the mandatory information listed in that provision need not appear in written advertising intended to promote a food supplement where that information is included on the labelling of the supplement itself

Sausage with sulphites, a crime also condemned as intentional

The addition of sulphites to sausage, a product then put on sale in a supermarket, constitutes the two concurrent crimes of Article 516 and Article 440 of the Criminal Code, the latter possibly in the negligent form referred to in Article 452 of the Criminal Code

Vincenzo Pacileo, former Magistrate at the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Turin

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