China's General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods to Take Effect in 2013: Energy and Four Core Nutrients Mandatory
China's first national food nutrition labeling standard, the General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, will officially take effect on January 1, 2013.
The General Rules is China's first mandatory national standard on food nutrition labeling and will serve as clear regulation and guidance for reviewing nutrition labels on prepackaged foods. It sets out specific provisions for the nutrition facts table, nutrition claims and nutrient function claims. The nutrition facts table must disclose the content values of energy, protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium—the four core nutrients—and it also imposes quantitative requirements for many nutrition claims and nutrient function claims.
The General Rules states that prepackaged foods must carry mandatory label declarations of energy and four nutrients (1+4), namely their content values and their percentage of the Nutrient Reference Value. The four nutrients are the four core nutrients: protein, fat, carbohydrates and sodium.
After the General Rules takes effect, all foods must display nutrition labels on their small retail packages, and foods with non-compliant nutrition labels may not be sold. At the same time, the inspection and supervision of nutrition labels on imported foods will have a clearer basis to go by.
— This article is reposted from China Packaging Network (pack.cn). Original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-362053.html
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