The project is expected to contribute to the prevention of obesity and weight problems by stimulating food innovation and reformulation among small and medium-sized food service providers, thereby offering a wider choice of healthy products to citizens and thus ultimately leading to changes in food habits. The project will add nutritional control criteria to the classical HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) system. The result is the so-called HANCP (hazard analysis and nutritional control points) system.
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The project is to study innovative approaches, such as industry involvement and public-private partnership initiatives, to counteract obesity and overweight in Europe, particularly through reformulation of manufactured food.
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The general objective of the PERISCOPE project is to prevent child obesity between the ages of 3 and 6. PERISCOPE is aimed at combating the increase of child obesity in three European countries: Italy, Denmark and Poland.
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SALUS general objectives, on the one hand, are to follow-up the reformulation of the manufactured foods, to analyse the EU context and to identify and exchange the best practices in terms of the reduction of the levels of fat, saturated and trans fats, salt and sugar in manufactured foods and to validate a model of cost effectiveness for the major reformulations.
In addition to them, SALUS specific objectives aim to collect and analyse the available data and information about the food reformulation, rules (laws) and cultural values of food to compare the different situations in the participating countries and to create a European Clearing House for agri-food SMEs and Consumers on food reformulation and labelling to provide and gather all the relevant information and to enhance the networking among existing centres of expertise and databases.
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This project seeks to increase the awareness within municipal policy makers and “professional practitioners” on how the socio-cultural context within the local settings, where municipalities can intervene with health promoting activities has an effect on healthy lifestyle choices and the health status within families. The increased awareness will increase these groups’ ability and willingness to develop and implement activities which are specifically developed in relation to the socio cultural context, where they are supposed to have an effect. The general objective of this project is therefore to ensure that health promoting activities, focusing on overweight, obesity and healthy lifestyle choices especially within young people and their families, has a better and long lasting effect.
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