Hong Kong

INFORMAS in Hong Kong is led by Dr Jimmy Louie of the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong.

Dr Louie currently works on 4 INFORMAS modules: Food Composition, Food Labelling, and Food Promotion, and Food Retail.

In collaboration with The George Institute for Global Health, Australia, Dr Louie localized the successful FoodSwitch program for use in Hong Kong in 2017. Through the FoodSwitch project, nutrition information for pre-packaged foods sold in Hong Kong has been collected and recorded annually since 2017 to create a longitudinal dataset which would allow the monitoring of the Hong Kong pre-packaged food supply. The first results on sodium level of pre-packaged foods have been published. New studies examining the use of intense and low-calorie sweeteners in the food supply are under review.

Dr Louieā€™s group has completed pilot studies to examine the extent of food and beverage promotion on free-to-air television and in Mass Transit Railway stations in Hong Kong, using the standard INFORMAS protocol. Both studies are now published.

Dr. Jimmy Louie

Assistant Professor in Food and Nutritional Sciences

School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong.

Email: Dr. Jimmy Louie

Module

Status (as of January 2021) Outputs
Public Sector (Food EPI)

N/A

 
Private Sector

N/A

 
Food Composition
  • 1 Paper in preparation
  • 1 Paper under review
  • 1 Paper published
1,2

Food Labelling

  • 1 Paper under review
  • 1 Paper underway
 
Food Promotion
  • 2 Papers published
3,4

Food Prices

N/A  

Food Retail

  • 2 Projects underway
 
Food Provision

N/A

 
Food Trade & Investment

N/A

 

Publications

Manuscripts published

  1. C Cheung, AM Rangan, IMY Tse, JCY Louie. Iron content and fortification status of a sample of local and imported pre-packaged baby foods available in Hong Kong. Nutr Diet. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1111/1747-0080.12643
  2. ASC Wong, DH Coyle, J Wu, JCY Louie. Sodium concentration in a sample of pre-packaged foods sold in Hong Kong. Public Health Nutr. 2020; 23(15):2804-10. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020002360
  3. VHI Cheung, JCY Louie. Non-core food product advertising on free-to-air television in Hong Kong. Public Health Nutr. 2020; 23(14):2457-66. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020000907
  4. SKH Lo, BYS O, JCY Louie. Food and beverage advertising in Mass Transit Railway stations in Hong Kong. Public Health Nutr. 2020; 23(14):2563-70. doi: 10.1017/S136898002000083X

Manuscripts currently under review

5. BYS O, D Coyle, EK Dunford, JHY Wu, JCY Louie. The use of non-nutritive and low-calorie sweeteners in 19,915 local and imported pre-packaged foods in Hong Kong. Br J Nutr. (under review)

6. *AI Chio, T Davies, J Wu, JCY Louie. High prevalence of missing nutrition labels and ingredients information on e-shops of Hong Kong supermarkets. Food Policy. (submitted)

The George Institute for Global Health, Australia