DIA, GWYNETH FRANCE B.

COURSE TASK - LECTURE

BSN 2 – YC – 17 MODULE WEEK 3 – RESEARCH
Instruction: Download a research article on any topic about Food Pyramid, Food Labels, and
Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos from ScienceDirect. Submit a 200–300-word essay reflection.
Towards effective labelling of foods: An international perspective on safety and nutrition

Gert W. Meijer, Patrick Detzel, Klaus G. Grunert, Marie-Claude Robert, Violeta Stancu

Food labeling is the supply of food data, in a standard format, on foods sold. In some
countries, it is required for processed foods to show food data on the product material,
including levels of strength, protein, gross fat, saturated fat, sugar, sugars, and sodium. Some
nations also put restrictions on the sorts of claims that may be made regarding the food
content of products and the effects on use or health. Codex Alimentarius, for instance,
recommends that food and wellness claims shall not mostly be allowed for nutrients for babies
and young children.

Supporting point of sale data, including through food labeling that ensures precise,
standard, and understandable data on food contents in food (in connection with the Codex
Alimentarius committee guidelines), With this increase of front-of-pack labeling to assist user
understanding; and this “WHO Global scheme on dieting, Physical action, and wellness” was
adopted in 2004 by the Health Assembly. This scheme called on governments, WHO, foreign
partners, the private sector, and national society to take action at international, regional, and
local levels to sustain good diets and physical activity. In 2010, the Health Machine endorsed
the collection of recommendations on the selling of foods and non-alcoholic drinks to kids.
These recommendations take countries in designing new policies and improving existing people
to lessen the effect on kids of the selling of foods and non-alcoholic drinks to kids. WHO has
also developed region-specific instruments (e.g., regional food profile models) that countries
will have to enforce these marketing recommendations.

Under the union administration’s paring down of this authority, which was established
by work in reaction to this BSE situation, it was led with the “content remit” of food safety and
implementation of the food labeling and composition policy. Different purposes including policy
and food labeling were transmitted to the welfare sector, while food labeling and composition
policy, not associated with safe, went to Defra. Further research on the inferences that
consumers make from the use of allergen symbols on food labels is recommended; Increase
understanding of the health impact of nutrition-related label elements on the key targets
obesity prevalence and NCD (risk factors); Closely monitor consumer understanding and true
health impact of mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling schemes; The food industry to
enable "healthier" food choices and (to continue) to reduce.
Reference:
Food Labels
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qk8hSjaAQx21eIM1hUKZYTN13mnLTCB4/view