Competences of the European Union and food-related causes of non-communicable diseases
Jakub Farhan
University of Bialystok , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3360-1553
Katarzyna Socha
Medical University of Bialystok , Polandhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5949-7061
Abstract
An unhealthy diet is one of the six major risk factors contributing to the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are currently one of the leading causes of excess deaths across the world. Scientific studies are more and more often taking into account the prevention of NCDs using legal instruments, including European Union (EU) law. However, there is some uncertainty regarding the scope of the competencies granted to the EU and the possibility of adopting legal solutions to deal with this issue. In view of the above, an analysis of EU competencies has been performed to implement possible instruments to counter NCDs at the EU level. In light of the broad catalogue of areas that the EU can affect and which contribute to the incidence of NCDs in society, as well as a number of horizontal provisions setting out the values that must guide the EU, the EU should, within the framework of its competences, consider fighting against food-borne causes of NCDs.
Keywords:
European Union law, competencies, NCDs, public healthReferences
Albors-Llorens A., Barnard C., Leucht B., Cassis de Dijon. 40 Years On, Oxford 2021. (Crossref)
Chen P.-J., Antonelli M., Conceptual Models of Food Choice: Influential Factors Related to Foods, Individual Differences, and Society, Foods 2020, t. 9, nr 12, DOI: 10.3390/foods9121898. (Crossref)
Dudkowski-Sadowska A., Aktywność fizyczna i zdrowie polskiej młodzieży jako wartości, Zeszyty Naukowe KUL 2021, t. 64, nr 4, DOI: 10.31743/znkul.13173. (Crossref)
EFSA, Tolerable Upper Intake Level for Dietary Sugars, EFSA Journal 2022, t. 20, nr 2, DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7074. (Crossref)
French S.A., Pricing Effects on Food Choices, The Journal of Nutrition 2003, t. 133, nr 3, DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.3.841S. (Crossref)
Jagielska M., Art. 169, w: K. Kowalik-Bańczyk, M. Szwarc-Kuczer, Traktat o funkcjonowaniu Unii Europejskiej. Komentarz, t. 2, red. A. Wróbel, Warszawa 2012.
Meulen B. van der, The System of Food Law in the European Union, Deakin Law Review 2009, t. 14, nr 2, DOI: 10.21153/dlr2009vol14no2art145. (Crossref)
Miąsik D., Półtorak N., Traktat o funkcjonowaniu Unii Europejskiej. Komentarz, t. 1, red. A. Wróbel, Warszawa 2012.
Michels N. i in., Dietary Trans-Fatty Acid Intake in Relation to Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Nutrition Reviews 2021, t. 79, nr 7, DOI: 10.1093/nutrit/nuaa061. (Crossref)
Pandita A. i in., Childhood Obesity: Prevention Is Better Than Cure, Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy 2016, t. 9, DOI: 10.2147/DMSO.S90783. (Crossref)
Paula Neto H.A. i in., Effects of Food Additives on Immune Cells As Contributors to Body Weight Gain and Immune-Mediated Metabolic Dysregulation, Frontiers in Immunology 2017, t. 8, DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01478. (Crossref)
Stecca L., Moscoso-Ruiz I., Gálvez-Ontiveros Y., Rivas A., Association between Dietary Exposure to Bisphenols and Body Mass Index in Spanish Schoolchildren, EFSA Journal 2022, t. 20, DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.e200421. (Crossref)
Tatlow-Golden M., Garde A., Digital Food Marketing to Children: Exploitation, Surveillance and Rights Violations, Global Food Security 2020, t. 27, DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100423. (Crossref)
Walls H.L., Cornelsen L., Lock K., Smith R.D., How Much Priority Is Given to Nutrition and Health in the EU Common Agricultural Policy?, Food Policy 2016, t. 59, DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.12.008. (Crossref)
Wirth A., Wabitsch M., Hauner H., The Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Deutsches Arzteblatt International 2014, t. 111, nr 42, DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2014.0705. (Crossref)
Zimmerman F.J., Shimoga S.V., The Effects of Food Advertising and Cognitive Load on Food Choices, BMC Public Health 2014, t. 14, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-342. (Crossref)
Medical University of Bialystok
Katarzyna Socha - asystent (od 1998 roku), adiunkt (od 2003 roku) w Zakładzie Bromatologii Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
Kierownik Zakładu Bromatologii Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Białymstoku (od 2019 roku).
Prodziekan ds. Rozwoju Wydziału Farmaceutycznego z Oddziałem Medycyny Laboratoryjnej Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Białymstoku.
Członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Farmaceutycznego (wcześniej skarbnik, sekretarz, obecnie członek Komisji Rewizyjnej Oddział w Białymstoku); Członek Zarządu Głównego Polskiego Towarzystwa Nauk Żywieniowych (przewodnicząca Oddział w Białymstoku); Członek Komitetu Nauki o Żywieniu Człowieka PAN, wiceprzewodnicząca Komisji Bezpieczeństwa Żywności i Żywienia; Członek Zespołu Analityki Żywności, Surowców i Produktów Żywnościowych Komitetu Chemii Analitycznej PAN.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5949-7061License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The Author declares that the Work is original and does not infringe any personal or proprietary rights of third parties, and that She/He has unlimited rights to the Work which are the subject of the Agreement signed with the Publisher.
Author of the publication transfers to the Publisher the economic copyrights to the Work (article) submitted for publication, free of charge, without time and territorial restrictions in the following fields of use:
a) production, recording and reproduction of the copies of the Work by a specific technique, including printing, magnetic recording and digital technology;
b) marketing, lending or rental of the original or copies of the Work, and distribution in the form of open access, in accordance with the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (also known as CC BY), available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.pl;
c) inclusing the Work in the composition of the collective work;
d) publishing on the website of the journal, public performance, exhibition, display, reproduction, broadcasting and rebroadcasting, and making the Work available to the public in such a way that everyone can have access to them in a place and at a time chosen by them;
e) uploading the Work in an electronic form to electronic platforms or other uploading of the Work in an electronic form to the Internet or other network.
The proprietary copyright to the Work is transferred to the Publisher free of charge upon signing the contract wit the Publisher.
