"Selective "three minus" prepackaged food positive logo" guidance standard comments focused on the seminar in...

June 23, 2017, the Chinese Nutrition Society held a seminar in Beijing on the guidance standards of the "Selective "Three Minuss" Prepackaged Food Positive Label (front-of-package, FOP) (hereinafter referred to as the FOP Guidelines). Director Shi Gensheng of the Food Division of the Health and Planning Commission attended the meeting, which was attended by experts from the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, the Nutrition and Health Institute of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, all members of the "FOP Guidance Standards" Working Group of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and representatives of more than 20 food enterprises.. The 2014 State of the World's Noncommunicable Diseases Report, released by the World Health Organization (WHO), confirms that chronic diseases have become a major challenge for countries around the world, and who call on countries to reduce their intake of salt, sugar and fat. The Chinese Nutrition Society, drawing on the advanced experience of international organizations, took 3 years to complete the core content of the guidance standard of "Selective "Three Minus" Prepackaged Food Positive Labeling, and set a limit range for the fat, sugar and sodium content of 9 categories of food. Professor Yang Yuanxin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, stressed that the FOP guidance standard is a voluntary labeling system, and that the work will put the core content of the "three reductions (salt reduction, oil reduction, sugar reduction)" special action into product indicators, aimed at guiding consumers to choose healthy food, encouraging food manufacturers to improve product formulations, so as to create a healthy consumption environment with low fat, low salt and low sugar for consumers, which can play a major role in supporting the construction of a healthy China. The current period of FOP system is carried out in our country, and it is also the perfection of the framework and work of international FOP organization. The FOP guidelines will be one of the basis for the screening of health brands in the National Health Brand Strategic Plan, created by four institutions, including the United Nations Strategic Alliance for Technological Innovation in the Food and Nutritional Health Industry." FOP Guidance Standards "Working Group Zhao Jia on the standards for the collection of views and the handling of comments to the experts and representatives of the meeting made a report. Under the chairman of Yang, the meeting discussed the core content of FOP guidance standards, "food classification and limited values" item by item, the representatives of the participating enterprises fully expressed their views, the working group based on the preliminary research data and research results, the enterprise representatives proposed changes to explain, experts comprehensive standard-setting principles and industry status quo, the indicators for re-examination.. "Selective "three minus" pre-packaged food positive logo" guidance standards, in response to the Health and Planning Commission "three reduction (oil reduction, sugar reduction, salt reduction)" action, is to guide the healthy development of the food industry, affecting the daily consumption pattern of a strong grasp. With the support of business representatives and experts, the seminar successfully achieved the desired goal, and the positioning and awareness of the importance of FOP work by the government, industry and society are highly consistent, which will greatly speed up the process of the publication and implementation of FOP guidance standards.
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