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Groupe Casino undertakes to discontinue the use of palm oil in its own brand products 200 palm oil-free products by 2010 and all products in the long term
25 March 2010
After being the first retailer to sign the "Charter of commitments to nutritional improvement" in 2008, Groupe Casino is now undertaking to discontinue the use of palm oil in its products.
Palm oil is a vegetable fat whose mass consumption can present health risks - rising the level of cholesterol in the blood and increasing cardiovascular risk- and environmental riks (deforestation in Asia).
Rightly so, this new undertaking will result in over 200 references guaranteed free of palm oil by the end of 2010. Currently the products containing palm oil are listed and the changes in recipes required (for instance replacing with rapeseed oil or sunflower oil) are in the pipeline. In the long run, no Casino food product will contain palm oil
13 products easily identified by a dot on the packaging are already available in Casino stores (Géant Casino, Casino supermarché, Petit Casino, Spar and Vival).
This initiative, headed by the quality department, is shared across the company and the different banners of the group. Hence, Franprix, Leader Price (Leader Price products) and Monoprix (Monoprix products) are taking the same approach on board.
Since 2008 Groupe Casino is proactive in 3 nutritional improvement fields: improvement of the nutritional quality of products), drives to eat more fruit and vegetables and consumer information.
On the sustainable development front, Casino is the first retailer to measure the environmental impact of its products with the "carbon footprint index". Discontinuing palm oil from the Casino products is fully in keeping with this two-fold undertaking: nutritional improvement and environmental improvement.
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