The launch of the Public Awareness Research Project on Food Nutrition Policy Analysis and Nutrition Labeling in China will be held in Beijing.

recent years, in order to strengthen the prevention and control of chronic noncommunicable diseases, countries have issued a series of public health policies, among which, nutrition labeling policies have attracted more and more attention. Nutrition label, as an important medium to convey food nutrition information, has gradually become an important reference for consumers to buy food. To this end, many developed and developing countries have imposed nutrition labelling system. China's former Ministry of Health in 2007 issued voluntary implementation of food nutrition label management norms, in 2011 issued a mandatory national standard "National Standard for Food Safety Prepackaged Food Nutrition Label General Principles" (GB28050-2011), and on January 1, 2013 began to formally implement. However, existing studies have found that some consumers do not understand the information on nutrition labels. To this end, the WHO calls on Member States to use front-of-package(FOPL) for food packaging. FOPL often refers to simplified information about food-specific ingredients and nutritional characteristics, such as oil, salt, sugar, etc., and is a social communication tool for public products. At present, many countries have introduced FOPL implementation policies or standards.
In order to implement the requirements of the Health China Initiative (2019-2030), "actively promote the use of 'food packaging positive labeling' information on food packaging to help consumers quickly choose healthy foods", drawing on international experience to promote the development of China's food nutrition policy and nutrition labeling policy research and development, promote With the support of the Salt Reduction Project of the World Health Organization Representative Office in China, the Chinese Nutrition Society and the School of Group Medicine and Public Health of the Concord Medical College of Beijing jointly launched the "China Food Nutrition Policy Analysis and Public Awareness Research Project on Food Labeling" and held a project launch meeting in Beijing on October 12, 2020. The project will provide scientific basis for the health of our population and the further improvement of nutrition labeling by investigating and understanding the existence form of FOPL in Our market, the public's preference for FOPL, the cognition, evaluation and influence factors of nutrition labeling.
launch meeting, Ms. Paige Snider, Senior Adviser for Communication and External Relations of the World Health Organization (WHO) Office in China, Ms. Indo, Head of the Slow Disease Control Department, Ms. Xu Jia, Director of the Nutrition Department of the Food Department of the National Health And Health Commission, and Yang Yue, President of the Chinese Nutrition Society Professor Xin, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, Beijing Concord Medical College, Feng Called Researcher, experts from the National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, china Center for Disease Control and Prevention, George Global Health Research Institute (China) and other institutions, as well as from Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Guangdong, Sichuan, 6 project survey points attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Professor Yang Yuxin.
In her speech, Ms. Su Pei stressed the important guiding role of FOPL in consumers' choice of healthy foods and stimulating food manufacturers to improve their formulations according to standards, saying that WHO is actively committed to promoting the implementation of FOPL in various countries, recommending that countries develop and develop locally appropriate FOPL, and in the development process of FOPL, led by the government, research institutions, CDC, industry and other sectors of society to participate in cooperation. She affirmed that the general guidelines on nutrition labelling of prepackaged foods currently being revised in China referred to "allowing the front of the packaging to be supplemented with nutritional content table information in graphical, written and other forms" and expressed the hope that such a move would lay the foundation for China's FOPL policy formulation. In his speech, Director Xu introduced the development of China's food and nutrition policy, as well as the current relevant ministries to promote healthy China's rational dietary action to implement the main measures taken, and the timely implementation of this project expressed full recognition, calling on all relevant units to work together to promote the implementation of reasonable dietary action. In his speech, Vice President Feng said that the School of Group Medicine and Public Health of The Beijing Concord Medical College will work with the Chinese Nutrition Society to promote research on China's food nutrition policy and nutrition labeling policy, providing basic data support for policy formulation and improvement.
Ms. Indy, Head of the Slow Disease Control Branch of the WHO Representative Office in China, reviewed and analyzed the international policies and concepts related to the promotion of healthy eating, the practical experience of national FOPL policies and relevant evidence of policy research, and combed through the interpretation of the WHO Guidelines and Framework Manual for the Positive Labeling System for Healthy Eating. Associate Professor Zhang Wei of the School of Group Medicine and Public Health, Concord Medical College, Beijing, gave a detailed introduction to the project research program. Subsequently, the experts and provincial project point leaders carried out in-depth discussion and analysis of the project program, put forward concrete and feasible revised comments and suggestions. Provincial project point leaders have said that they will do a good job in project organization and implementation, to ensure the quality of project survey data, the successful completion of the project investigation task.
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