The Chinese Nutrition Society issued the "Prepackaged Food "Healthy Choices" Labeling Code of Use (Trial...

.On October 31st, the Chinese Nutrition Society and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention nutrition and health sponsored the "prepackaged food "health choice" logo use norms (trial) issued and announced in Beijing.. Zhang Zhiqiang, Deputy Director of the Food Department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, delivered a speech Liang Xiaofeng, Deputy Director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, delivered a speech Wang Lili, Deputy Director of the Slow Disease Division of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, made a speech Zhang Zhiqiang, Deputy Director of the Food Department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Liang Xiaofeng, Deputy Director of the Slow Disease Division of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, attended the press conference.Director of the Chinese Nutrition Society and a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Institute of Nutrition and Health, made a report on behalf of the Normative Drafting Working Group. Ding Gangqiang, director of the Nutrition and Health Institute of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and vice president of the Chinese Nutrition Society, Tian Xiangyang, director of the training department of the China Center for Health Education, Professor Guo Changjiang, executive director of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and Gao Shibao, director of the Food Department of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, attended the meeting.the "Health Choice" label of prepackaged foods is a health action aimed at reducing the oil, salt and sugar content of prepackaged foods. Front-of-package food packaging front label (Front-of-package, FOP), by developing a series of nutritional standard rules to reduce oil, salt, sugar, unified measurement or judgment of food compliance, or as a goal to adjust food formulation, gradually meet the "three minus" conditions. At present, China has a lot of food enterprises began to develop standards, the use of FOP to inform consumers of concern. The Chinese Academy of Nutrition and the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jointly established the FOP Working Group to develop "healthy choices" to encourage the food industry to use uniform standards, fair competition, honesty and credit, and better guide consumers' health choices.I.
Carrying out the spirit of healthy China and responding to the call for thring minus three health" statistics show that the proportion of deaths from chronic diseases in China is more than 80%, and the proportion of chronic diseases is younger. Unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors, such as high salt, high oil, improper diet and lack of exercise, are the main factors in the development of chronic diseases. In 2016, led by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the country-wide focus on "three minus three health" (salt reduction, oil reduction, sugar reduction, healthy mouth, healthy weight, healthy bones) special action, in-depth promotion of a healthy lifestyle for all.. Ding Gangqiang, director of the Nutrition and Health Institute of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and vice president of the
Chinese Nutrition Society, delivered a welcoming speech to the conference Ding Gangqiang, director of the Nutrition and Health Institute of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and vice president of the Chinese Nutrition Society, said in a speech that in response to the call of the Health and Planning Commission for "three minus three health" and "the healthy lifestyle of the whole people" Action to promote the "Healthy China 2030" planning outline, "National Nutrition Plan (2017-2030)" goals, the Chinese Nutrition Society combined with international experience, based on scientific research, after many expert discussions and opinion collection, formulated the "prepackaged food "healthy choice" label use norms (trial).The specification, on the one hand, guides consumers to understand the nutritional value of food more easily and helps them choose healthy foods, and on the other hand encourages food manufacturers to improve product formulations, reduce the use of salt, fat and sugar in food processing, and create a low-fat, low-salt, low-sugar dietary environment for consumers to prevent and reduce obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases., do
food nutrition labels do not understand? FOP helps consumers make healthy choices easily Professor Yang Yuxin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, publishes an expert report Professor Yang Yuxin, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society, says nutrition labeling is an important tool to guide consumers to understand food nutrition information, but its wide range of information can reduce consumers' understanding of the nutritional table and can be confusing when used.In recent years, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and food companies in many countries around the world have begun to use an icon to summarize the main nutritional information and characteristics of food, and the nutritional evaluation system used to determine whether food can be labeled as an icon is called front-of-package, FOP, to help consumers make healthier food choices.. The FOP system first emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when WHO proposed Diet, Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention, which emphasized the relationship between diet and disease, especially oil, salt and sugar intake and health. Government agencies, international organizations, academic groups or non-profit health organizations in a number of countries have studied and developed methods for evaluating food nutrition and guiding healthy choices. In 1987, for example, the American Heart Association designed a simple icon that showed that food was "good for the heart" and provided good guidance to consumers. Since then, the use of FOP systems and icons for food labelling has increased significantly., government agencies and non-profit organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. have established their FOP systems.2006, Professor Yang's team began researching food nutrition evaluation methods and Nutrient Profile with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology project, thereby evolving the FOP available for nutrition labels. After more than three years of work and many consultations, the FOP Working Group will soon launch the Code for the Use of the "Healthy Choice" Logo for Prepackaged Foods (trial) (the name is intended to make users more intuitive and clear), which can be said to be China's FOP.. The FOP system can be used as part of nutrition labels and has played an important role in supplementing and supporting dietary guidelines, consumer nutrition and health education, nutrition policy development, and public health policy intervention research aimed at improving diet.. The evaluation indicators of the FOP system are relevant to public significance, and limiting the intake of this target nutrient plays an important role in preventing and controlling obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases. The use of the FOP system serves as an advocacy and dietary guide for consumers, encourages healthy eating, thereby promoting healthy lifestyles, and can also serve as a tool for food production and marketing companies to self-evaluate and innovate their products.III,
FOP system involves ten food categories, "healthy choice" icon shows health characteristics
The food classifications covered by the system include dairy and dairy products, nuts and seeds, cereals, meat products, aquatic products, egg products, legumes (except fermentation), fruit and vegetable products, water and beverages, and other food categories, excluding prototype foods and special dietary foods, and excluding specific population items."Prepackaged Food "Healthy Choices" Labeling Guidelines (Trial) adopt a summary index system, control indicators including fat, saturated fat, total sugar and sodium, the "Prepackaged Food Nutrition Label general rules (GB28050)" and "Chinese residents dietary nutrient reference intake (2013 edition)" as reference standards, for each food category to develop the corresponding threshold standards. The Code grants "Healthy Choices" icons to foods that meet the criteria to indicate their healthier properties. This type of food can be labeled "Healthy Choice" on the packaging of the smallest sales unit available to consumers. . The FOP system encourages enterprises to take practical action to participate in the prevention of "three reductions" and chronic diseases, set annual product nutrition targets, and gradually meet the requirements of different categories of food "oil, salt, sugar". 4,
"Health Choice" Logo lit up, enterprises responded positively leaders jointly lit up China's FOP system logo logo meeting, was invited to lead Zhang Zhiqiang Deputy Director, Liang Xiaofeng Deputy Director, Wang Lili Deputy Director, Tian Xiangyang Director and the organizer leader Professor Yang Yuexin, Director Ding Gangqiang jointly released the logo of China's FOP system - "Health Choice" logo. . Representatives of participating enterprises jointly read out the initiative Then, the FOP system involved in the nine categories of food enterprise representatives: grassy, bright dairy, Mengniu Group, farmers mountain spring, white elephant food, Yurun Group, Shanghai Good China, Fangjia shop, etc. on stage to read out the "response to the "three minus", support "healthy choice" joint initiative. Business representatives unanimously said that the food industry is an important pillar of China's promotion of the development of large health industry, should promote the "healthy China" national strategic objectives as its own responsibility, and actively promote the realization of the National Nutrition Plan for healthy China. the Chinese Nutrition Society and the FOP Expert Working Group, which receives corporate advice and is responsible for promoting the health promotion role of FOP and promoting the "three minuss" of food enterprises. .