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A front-of-pack labelling system for food and beverages for Mexico: a strategy of healthy decision-making
- Source :
- Salud Pública de México, Vol 60, Iss 4, jul-ago, Pp 479-486 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2018.
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Abstract
- The Mexican Ministry of Health requested the National Institute of Public Health to constitute a group of independent, free of conflict-of-interest academic experts on front-of-pack labelling (FOP). This group was instructed to created a positioning paper to contribute to the development of a FOP system for industrialized products that offers useful information for purchase decision making. This position paper uses the best available scientific evidence, and recommendations from experts of international organizations. The FOP proposal focuses on the contents of energy, nutrients, ingredients and components that if consumed in excess on the diet, can be harmful to people’s health, such as added sugars, sodium, total fat, saturated fat and energy. The academic expert group recommends the implementation of a FOP that provides an easy way to quickly assess the quality of a product. It is essential that this FOP provides direct, simple, visible and easily understandable information.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN :
- 00363634 and 16067916
- Volume :
- 60
- Issue :
- 4, jul-ago
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Salud Pública de México
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.522e230f2a2840d69abbf12c6a989a6d
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.21149/9615