Founded | 2002 |
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Founder | Thilo Bode |
Focus | Consumer rights |
Location | |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Jörg Rohwedder, president |
Website | www |
Foodwatch is a European advocacy group that focuses on protecting consumer rights [1] as they pertain to food quality. [2] Was founded in October 2002 in Berlin by former Greenpeace executive director Thilo Bode. [3] [4] As of 2020 [update] the organization is active in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Austria. [5] foodwatch International, while handled as a separate unit is legally a part of the German foodwatch association. [6]
In 2008 they reported that uranium concentrations in German tap water exceeded the permitted levels. [7]
An important aspect of Foodwatch's activities consists of investigating manufacturers claims in marketing campaigns and on packaging. Each year Foodwatch delivers the Goldener Windbeutel (German)/Gouden Windei (Dutch), given to the product whose packaging is the most misleading as voted on by visitors to the website. In 2009 the award went to Actimel. [8] In the 2012 campaign, Foodwatch criticized Becel pro-active, a Unilever product which is supposed to lower the risk of coronary disease. Foodwatch demanded Unilever stop selling the product, [9] leading to considerable scrutiny of the product and countercriticism by the manufacturer. [10]
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Chupa Chups is a Catalan brand of lollipop and confectionery company found in over 150 countries around the world. The brand was founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, and is currently owned by the Italian-Dutch company Perfetti Van Melle. The name of the brand comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning "to suck". Similar confections are known as lollipops or suckers in English.
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Persil is a German brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by Henkel around the world except in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Latin America, China, Australia and New Zealand, where it is manufactured and marketed by Unilever. Persil was introduced in 1907 by Henkel. It was the first commercially available laundry detergent that combined bleach with the detergent. The name was derived from two of its original ingredients, sodium perborate and sodium silicate.
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