Part Three: Combating disease and addiction

Preventing obesity and overweight is a priority for public health policy.

The State organises and coordinates the prevention, treatment and fight against obesity and overweight.

Information campaigns to prevent obesity and overweight are validated by the French National Public Health Agency.

These campaigns should also focus on the acceptance of obese or overweight people and the fight against discrimination against them.

No foodstuff for everyday consumption intended for the final consumer distributed in the collectivities mentioned in Article 73 of the Constitution and in the collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon may have a higher added sugar content than that of a similar foodstuff of the same brand distributed in mainland France. When the added sugar content of a foodstuff for everyday consumption distributed in mainland France decreases, those responsible for…

The added sugar content of everyday consumer foodstuffs intended for the final consumer distributed in the collectivities mentioned in Article 73 of the Constitution and in the collectivities of Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, but not distributed by the same retailers in mainland France, may not exceed the highest added sugar content found in the most widely distributed assimilable foodstuffs of the same family in mainland France. An order by the…