Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 17 (Lei Yunliang, Xu Penghang) Potato chips, drinks, biscuits.
Xu Jiao, director of the Food and Nutrition Division of the Food Safety Standards and Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the National Health Commission, said that high salt, high oil, and high sugar intake are risk factors for obesity, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other metabolic diseases and cancer.
The reporter learned that the food packaging front labeling system refers to the nutrition labeling system located on the front of the food package (in the main field of view), usually in the form of graphics, which simply and intuitively present the nutrient content or nutritional quality of the product such as salt, sugar and fat.
Zhang Juan, an associate professor at the School of Medicine and Public Health of Peking Union Medical College, said that pre-packaged food is more common in China, and 83.
According to experts, the front label of food packaging is a faster and easier to understand form of labeling
"More than 50 countries around the world have used government-supported food packaging positive labeling systems
Official Pan Qi, deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Hospital of the National Medical Center, said: "Excessive intake of salt, oil, and sugar has become an important risk factor
The conference was hosted by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the School of Medicine and Public Health of the Peking Union Medical College
Academy of Sciences
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