Let nutrition labels play the role of "food instructions".

The relevant person in charge of the Food Department of the National Health and Health Commission revealed that, in order to better meet the nutritional and health needs of consumers, China will revise the General Regulations on Nutrition Labeling of Food Safety National Standards (the "Label General Rules"), which has now entered the official consultation stage. The revised Labeling General Rules will force companies to label ingredients related to nutritional health for all, such as sugars, saturated fatty acids, etc. In the voluntary logo, companies are encouraged to declare the content of salt, sugar and oil, using the core information of the "Chinese Residents' Dietary Pagoda Graphic" and "Chinese Residents' Dietary Guidelines".
"Label General Principles" on food production enterprises have a strong guidance, enterprises should not only follow the "Label General Principles" to ensure food safety, but also as far as possible scientific and reasonable combination of nutrients, so that it is both nutritious and conducive to health. Since enterprises do not lack nutrition talents, even if the "label general rules" widely used professional terminology, within the enterprise will not create obstacles to understanding and promotion, the current "label general rules" also exist in the general public difficult to understand the special terms, such as "nutrient reference values" (NRV), "repair values" and so on.
The final service object of the Label General Principles is the consumer, between the Label General Principles and the consumer, the enterprise plays the role of an intermediary bridge, the enterprise has the responsibility to follow the "Label General Principles" for research and development and production, but also has the obligation to do a good job for the consumer "label General Principles" "translation", the "Label General Principles" related content is popularly presented. If the nutritional content on the food packaging shows neglect the consumer's habits and acceptance ability, directly copy the "label general rules" on the form of content, the role of consumer guidance will be greatly reduced.
the current market on the food packaging are printed with nutritional content table, unfortunately, the content of the content table for the public are very abstract. For example, in grams and calories and other units of the labeled ingredients, although the data is very accurate, but it is difficult to give consumers an intuitive impression, not to popularize knowledge and promote a reasonable diet, especially when it comes to quality, volume, energy and other unit conversion, food nutrition label "food instructions" role is more difficult to play.
in order to improve the popularity of food ingredient labeling, there have been useful attempts by enterprises in the past. For example, The Healthy China Initiative (2019-2030) advocates a daily salt intake of no more than 5 grams per capita, but how much is 5 grams? How to allocate to three meals a day diet, the people have no bottom in mind, more do not know how to operate. To this end, some enterprises launched a "salt-limiting spoon", the abstract "how many grams", quantified into a specific "a few scoops", although the change is small, but the guiding role is significantly enhanced. For example, "Chinese residents meal pagoda graphics" and so on, in the form of graphic and lush, will be reasonable meals presented in front of the public, what to eat, how to eat, the people at a glance. Such ingredient marking and nutrition science is only ground gas, easy to win the understanding and recognition of consumers.
An important task of this revision of the General Labeling Rules is to regulate the behavior of enterprises to label the nutritional content of food products, to raise consumers' awareness of nutritional health by indicating the content of fat, sugar and sodium, and to promote action to reduce salt, oil and sugar. It is expected that the revised General Principles of Labeling will be more binding on enterprises, enhance their innovation in this area, and make people eat more at ease and healthier through more understandable and practical nutrition labelling and dietary guidance.
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